Hanging Rock Creek near Kershaw, 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 02131472 sits on Hanging Rock Creek and reads everything draining 25 square miles of the Lynches basin. Its datum sits 341 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1981, 32 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 Lynches River near Bishopville, SC at 675 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Hanging Rock Creek runs a median of 11 cfs at this gauge across 32 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 32 cfs, and October the leanest at 4.4 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,080 cfs in 1991, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 1986.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1981 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 6.7 feet, in July 2024.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge HRKS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.