About this river
Dogtooth Creek is a 9.3 mile river near Lake Oahe in North Dakota. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Cannonball River at Breien, ND (site 06354000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1934 to 2026
Dogtooth Creek typically runs highest in April, at a median 185 cfs, and lowest in January, at 8.9 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 63,100 cfs, in 1950.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9 | 1.6 to 20 | |
| February | 10 | 0.8 to 35 | |
| March | 120 | 30 to 656 | |
| April | 185 | 76 to 566 | |
| May | 103 | 42 to 322 | |
| June | 137 | 46 to 353 | |
| July | 72 | 25 to 174 | |
| August | 29 | 6.9 to 72 | |
| September | 16 | 3.1 to 39 | |
| October | 15 | 5.5 to 43 | |
| November | 23 | 11 to 45 | |
| December | 14 | 6.0 to 28 |
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 91 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Cannonball River at Breien, ND (site 06354000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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