Beetree Creek near Swannanoa, NC Flow & Water Level

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 03450000 sits on Beetree Creek and reads everything draining 5.5 square miles of the Upper French Broad basin. Its datum sits 2,693 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1926, 92 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Beetree Reservoir on Beetree Creek near Swannanoa, NC at 7.6 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 72% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Swannanoa River at Biltmore, NC, French Broad River at Haywood Rd at Asheville, NC and French Broad River at Asheville, NC.

Normal flows here

Beetree Creek runs a median of 6.7 cfs at this gauge across 92 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 14 cfs, and September the leanest at 2.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,590 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 1954.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1926 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.