About this river
Clear Creek is a 3.9 mile river near Clear Creek Rafting Co. in Colorado. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge North Clear Creek above Mouth near Black Hawk, CO (site 06718550). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1995 to 2026
Clear Creek typically runs highest in May, at a median 51 cfs, and lowest in January, at 2.7 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 415 cfs, in 1995.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.7 | 2.2 to 3.2 | |
| February | 2.7 | 2.1 to 3.4 | |
| March | 3.7 | 2.9 to 5.0 | |
| April | 9.5 | 6.5 to 15 | |
| May | 51 | 34 to 74 | |
| June | 44 | 27 to 68 | |
| July | 10 | 7.8 to 17 | |
| August | 5.3 | 3.3 to 9.7 | |
| September | 3.5 | 2.3 to 5.8 | |
| October | 3.5 | 2.5 to 5.0 | |
| November | 3.3 | 2.6 to 4.0 | |
| December | 2.9 | 2.4 to 3.3 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 31 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for North Clear Creek above Mouth near Black Hawk, CO (site 06718550). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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