Chickasawhay River at Quitman, MS 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 02477045 sits on the Chickasawhay River and reads everything draining 965 square miles of the Upper Chickasawhay basin. Its datum sits 172 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2022, 5 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Chickasawhay River at Enterprise, MS, reading 918 square miles. This gauge adds the 47 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Chickasawhay River near Waynesboro, MS at 1,650 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 58% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Chickasawhay River runs a median of 601 cfs at this gauge across 5 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 2,070 cfs, and October the leanest at 162 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 18,600 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 96 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2022 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.