Briar Creek below Edwards Branch near Charlotte, 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 0214643860 sits on Briar Creek and reads everything draining 14 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 628 feet above sea level NAVD88.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Briar Creek at Independence Blvd at Charlotte, NC, reading 11 square miles. This gauge adds the 3.0 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Briar Creek at Providence Road at Charlotte, NC at 18 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 81% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Briar Creek above Colony Rd at Charlotte, NC, Little Sugar C at Archdale Dr at Charlotte, NC and Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC.

Flood stages and record crests

Briar Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 15 feet. NWS starts watching it at 14 feet. The highest crest on record is 17.9 feet, in August 2008.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BRIN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.