Four Mile Creek near Pineville, 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 02146670 sits on Four Mile Creek and reads everything draining 18 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 529 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1997, 14 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 Mcalpine Creek below Mcmullen Creek near Pineville, NC at 92 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Four Mile Creek runs a median of 6.2 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 11 cfs, and October the leanest at 2.4 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 952 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

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

Four Mile Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 16.5 feet. NWS starts watching it at 11.5 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.9 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge FMCN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.