Holiday Creek near Andersonville, VA 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 02038850 sits on Holiday Creek and reads everything draining 8.5 square miles of the Appomattox basin. Its datum sits 472 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1966, 60 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 Appomattox River at Farmville, VA at 302 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Holiday Creek runs a median of 4.8 cfs at this gauge across 60 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 7.9 cfs, and September the leanest at 2.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,740 cfs in 1972, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1966 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

NWS action stage at this gauge is 4 feet. The highest crest on record is 14.6 feet, in June 1972.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge HLCV2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.