Hamilton Creek at Snow Road near Semmes, AL 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 02480002 sits on Hamilton Creek and reads everything draining 8.2 square miles of the Escatawpa basin. Its datum sits 107 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1990, 36 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 Jb Converse Reservoir near Spillway near Semmes, Ala at 105 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Escatawpa River at I-10 near Orange Grove, MS.

Normal flows here

Hamilton Creek runs a median of 15 cfs at this gauge across 36 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 17 cfs, and October the leanest at 13 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,000 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 7.1 cfs in 2006.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1990 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.