Davenport Creek near Loughman, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02266480 sits on Davenport Creek and reads everything draining 23 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Its datum sits 78 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1970, 56 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 Reedy Creek at S-40, near Loughman, FL at 174 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 13% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Reedy Creek near Loughman, FL and Reedy Creek at State Hwy 531 near Poinsianna, FL. It then enters Lake Hatchineha near Lake Wales, Fla, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Davenport Creek runs a median of 8.0 cfs at this gauge across 56 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 17 cfs, and May the leanest at 2.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 502 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.4 cfs in 1981.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1970 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.