Cummings Creek near Fulton, 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 02430880 sits on Cummings Creek and reads everything draining 19 square miles of the Upper Tombigbee basin. Its datum sits 292 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1975, 51 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 Tombigbee River at Bigbee, MS at 1,226 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Tombigbee River near Amory, MS.

Normal flows here

Cummings Creek runs a median of 20 cfs at this gauge across 51 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 34 cfs, and August the leanest at 11 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,200 cfs in 1984, and the lowest is 2.1 cfs in 1988.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1975 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Bear Creek Dam is 23 miles from this gauge on the Bear Creek system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Bear Creek Dam 23 miles
• Little Bear Creek Dam 25 miles