Cataloochee Creek near Cataloochee, 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 03460000 sits on Cataloochee Creek and reads everything draining 49 square miles of the Pigeon basin. Its datum sits 2,457 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1934, 82 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 Waterville Lake on Pigeon River near Mnt Sterling, NC at 455 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 11% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Pigeon River below Power Plant near Waterville, NC and Pigeon River at Newport, TN.

Normal flows here

Cataloochee Creek runs a median of 78 cfs at this gauge across 82 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 153 cfs, and October the leanest at 41 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,220 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 12 cfs in 1940.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1934 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.