Big Nance Creek at Courtland AL 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 03586500 sits on Big Nance Creek and reads everything draining 166 square miles of the Pickwick Lake basin. Its datum sits 538 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1935, 79 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 Wilson Lake near Florence, AL at 30,750 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Big Nance Creek runs a median of 56 cfs at this gauge across 79 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 275 cfs, and September the leanest at 10 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 18,400 cfs in 1991, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2023.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1935 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Big Nance Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 14 feet. NWS starts watching it at 12 feet. The highest crest on record is 25 feet, in March 1973.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BNAA1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Wheeler Dam is 9 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Wheeler Dam 9 miles
• Wilson Dam 19 miles