Fishing Creek below Fort Lawn, 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 02147403 sits on Fishing Creek and reads everything draining 280 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 362 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2001, 12 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Fishing Creek at Hwy 5 below York, SC, reading 17 square miles. This gauge adds the 263 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Lake Wateree Tailrace above Camden, SC at 4,740 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 6% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Wateree River near Camden, SC.

Normal flows here

Fishing Creek runs a median of 58 cfs at this gauge across 12 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 189 cfs, and October the leanest at 16 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 10,200 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 2.2 cfs in 2018.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2001 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.