Cedar Creek at GA Ave, at Cedartown, 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 02397410 sits on Cedar Creek and reads everything draining 65 square miles of the Upper Coosa basin. Its datum sits 759 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow is on record here from 1981 to 2017, 23 years in all.

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 Coosa River at State Line, Al/ga at 4,362 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Cedar Creek runs a median of 41 cfs at this gauge across 23 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 102 cfs, and September the leanest at 20 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,580 cfs in 1990, and the lowest is 7.0 cfs in 2015.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1981 to 2017. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

Flood stages and record crests

Cedar Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 15 feet. NWS starts watching it at 13 feet. The highest crest on record is 22 feet, in March 1979.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge CTWG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.