Charlie Creek near Gardner FL 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 02296500 sits on Charlie Creek and reads everything draining 330 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 22 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1951, 76 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Charlie Creek near Crewsville FL, reading 192 square miles. This gauge adds the 138 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Peace River at SR 70 at Arcadia, FL at 1,367 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 24% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River near Peace River Heights near Ft Ogden FL and Peace River at Harbour Heights FL.

Normal flows here

Charlie Creek runs a median of 42 cfs at this gauge across 76 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 442 cfs, and May the leanest at 8.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 19,500 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2000.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1951 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.