FLOOD04800

• County: El Paso
• Community: Colorado Springs
• Stream Name: Cottonwood Creek
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Engineering Study of Cottonwood Creek Drainage Basin
• Date: 8/7/1979
• Prepared For: Colorado Springs
• Prepared By: Lincoln Devore
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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Basin Description

The Cottonwood Creek Drainage Basin

as herein defined, consists of three sub-basins, Two of these

are collected directly into the stream known as Cottonwood Creek

while the third collects at a separate channel to Monument Creek.

The boundary between these basins is not clearly defined at all

points and the boundary is crossed by culverts at a number of points.

The upper and middle basin is entirely

in El Paso County, The western, closely studied portion of the

basin lies partly in the City of Colorado Springs and partly in the

County, The total area of the Cottonwood Creek basin as defined

herein, is approximately 24-1/4 square miles,

The southern basin boundary is de-

fined by the ridges separating it from the North Shook's Run and

Pulpit Rock basins. This ridge line is relatively steep, formed

by portions of the Cragmor Bluff and by the erosion ridge caused

by basin piracy. The easterly basin boundary is defined by the

relatively low, rolling ridge separating it from the Sand Creek

Basin. The northerly basin boundary is generally defined by the

low, rolling ridge separating it from the Pine Creek Basin, In the

Black Forest area, the ridges become rougher and the basin boun-

daries less well defined, . The western boundary is, of course,

Monument Creek, which serves as the outfall,

Although quite hilly, the basin is

not a "foothills" type basin as normally defined, Its upper

reaches lie on a portion of the high ground immediately east of

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