Buckeye Creek below Buckeye Lake near Cannon Gap, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 0347927164 sits on Buckeye Creek and reads everything draining 3.4 square miles of the Watauga basin. Its datum sits 3,339 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2019, 7 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Buckeye Creek above Buckeye Lake near Cannon Gap, NC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Buckeye Creek above Buckeye Lake near Cannon Gap, NC, reading 3.2 square miles. This gauge adds the 0.2 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Watauga River below Watauga Dam, Tenn at 468 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Watauga River below Wilbur Dam, TN and Watauga River at Elizabethton, TN.

Normal flows here

Buckeye Creek runs a median of 4.5 cfs at this gauge across 7 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 11 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,460 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2021.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2019 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Watauga Dam sits 14 miles from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Watauga Dam 14 miles
• Wilbur Dam 15 miles
• South Holston Dam 23 miles