Fishing Creek near Enfield, NC 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 02083000 sits on Fishing Creek and reads everything draining 526 square miles of the Fishing basin. Its datum sits 73 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1927, 100 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 Tar River at Tarboro, NC at 2,183 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 24% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Fishing Creek runs a median of 207 cfs at this gauge across 100 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 548 cfs, and September the leanest at 100 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 29,200 cfs in 1999, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2010.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1927 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Fishing Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 16 feet. NWS starts watching it at 15 feet. The highest crest on record is 22.1 feet, in April 1910.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge EFDN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.