About this river
Eagle Creek is a 2.2 mile river near The Dam House at Grindstone Lake in New Mexico. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Eagle Creek below South Fork near Alto, NM (site 08387600). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1970 to 2023
Eagle Creek typically runs highest in April, at a median 1.9 cfs, and lowest in June, at 0.2 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 353 cfs, in 2022.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.5 | 0.2 to 1.3 | |
| February | 0.7 | 0.2 to 3.1 | |
| March | 1.6 | 0.2 to 5.0 | |
| April | 1.9 | 0.1 to 5.0 | |
| May | 0.9 | 0.0 to 4.7 | |
| June | 0.2 | 0.0 to 0.8 | |
| July | 0.4 | 0.1 to 1.5 | |
| August | 1.3 | 0.4 to 3.0 | |
| September | 1.0 | 0.3 to 3.1 | |
| October | 0.5 | 0.2 to 1.3 | |
| November | 0.4 | 0.1 to 1.0 | |
| December | 0.5 | 0.1 to 1.3 |
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 45 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Eagle Creek below South Fork near Alto, NM (site 08387600). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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