Horse Creek near Myakka Head FL 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 02297155 sits on Horse Creek and reads everything draining 42 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 58 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1978, 48 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 Horse Creek at SR 72 near Arcadia, FL at 218 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River near Peace River Heights near Ft Ogden FL.

Normal flows here

Horse Creek runs a median of 6.4 cfs at this gauge across 48 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 54 cfs, and May the leanest at 1.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,240 cfs in 1988, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1985.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1978 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.