Buffalo Creek near Hampden Sydney, VA 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 02039000 sits on Buffalo Creek and reads everything draining 70 square miles of the Appomattox basin. Its datum sits 339 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1947, 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 Appomattox River at Farmville, VA at 302 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 23% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Buffalo Creek runs a median of 42 cfs at this gauge across 79 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 69 cfs, and September the leanest at 20 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,940 cfs in 1955, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1947 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 15 feet, in August 1940.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BFCV2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.