Butler Creek below 7Th Avenue, at Ft Gordon, 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 02196835 sits on Butler Creek and reads everything draining 10 square miles of the Middle Savannah basin. Its datum sits 258 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 20 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 Butler Creek Reservoir at Fort Gordon, GA at 13 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 79% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Savannah River near Waynesboro, GA.

Normal flows here

Butler Creek runs a median of 6.8 cfs at this gauge across 20 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 13 cfs, and July the leanest at 3.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 625 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.