Butler Creek at Mack Dobbs Road, near Kennesaw, GA 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 02393377 sits on Butler Creek and reads everything draining 3.6 square miles of the Etowah basin. Its datum sits 945 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2007, 19 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 Etowah River Allatoona Dam Tw, above Cartersville,ga at 1,122 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Etowah River at GA 61, near Cartersville, GA and Etowah River near Kingston,ga.

Normal flows here

Butler Creek runs a median of 1.9 cfs at this gauge across 19 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 4.2 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,500 cfs in 2009, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2007 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Butler Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 11 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 14.3 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BTCG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Allatoona Dam is 11 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Allatoona Dam 11 miles
• Morgan Falls Dam 15 miles