Dry Creek near Edenwold, 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 03426470 sits on Dry Creek and reads everything draining 7.6 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Sycamore basin. Its datum sits 423 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1997, 30 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 Cumberland River at Edenwold, TN at 11,735 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Stones River near Hermitage,tn, Cumberland River at Omohundro Wtr Plt at Nashville, TN and Cumberland River at Nashville, TN.

Normal flows here

Dry Creek runs a median of 2.7 cfs at this gauge across 30 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 10 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,230 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2008.

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

Flood stages and record crests

Dry Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.9 feet, in May 2010.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge NSRT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Old Hickory Dam is 3 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Old Hickory Dam 3 miles
• J Percy Priest Dam 11 miles