Fairforest Creek near Union, SC 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 02160000 sits on Fairforest Creek and reads everything draining 187 square miles of the Tyger basin. Its datum sits 389 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1940 to 1971, 31 years in all.

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 Tyger River above Whitmire Highway near Whitmire, SC at 696 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 27% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Broad River near Jenkinsville, SC and Broad River at Alston, SC.

Normal flows here

Fairforest Creek runs a median of 103 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 231 cfs, and September the leanest at 66 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 6,740 cfs in 1964, and the lowest is 5.0 cfs in 1955.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 to 1971. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.