Clear Creek at Lilly Bridge near Lancing, TN 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 03539778 sits on Clear Creek and reads everything draining 170 square miles of the Emory basin. Its datum sits 1,041 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1997, 29 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 Obed River near Lancing, TN at 518 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 33% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Emory River at Oakdale, TN.

Normal flows here

Clear Creek runs a median of 74 cfs at this gauge across 29 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 371 cfs, and September the leanest at 9.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 14,500 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1997 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.