Buckhorn Creek near Corinth, 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 02102192 sits on Buckhorn Creek and reads everything draining 76 square miles of the Upper Cape Fear basin. Its datum sits 154 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1981, 45 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Shearon Harris Reservoir on Buckhorn Creek near Corinth, NC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Shearon Harris Reservoir on Buckhorn Creek near Corinth, NC, reading 71 square miles. This gauge adds the 5.3 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Cape Fear River at Lillington, NC at 3,464 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Buckhorn Creek runs a median of 6.6 cfs at this gauge across 45 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 62 cfs, and September the leanest at 1.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,940 cfs in 1996, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1981 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Buckhorn Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 15 feet. NWS starts watching it at 14 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.8 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BUCN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.