Arbuckle Creek near De Soto City, FL Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02270500 sits on Arbuckle Creek and reads everything draining 379 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Its datum sits 36 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1939, 86 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lake Arbuckle near Avon Park, FL, reading 170 square miles. This gauge adds the 209 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

Arbuckle Creek runs a median of 133 cfs at this gauge across 86 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 484 cfs, and May the leanest at 61 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 7,180 cfs in 1948, and the lowest is -5.7 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1939 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.