Kinchafoonee Creek at Pinewood Road, near Dawson, GA 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 02350900 sits on Kinchafoonee Creek and reads everything draining 527 square miles of the Kinchafoonee-Muckalee basin. Its datum sits 211 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1985, 41 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Kinchafoonee Creek at Preston, GA, reading 197 square miles. This gauge adds the 330 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Kinchafoonee Creek at Century Rd,near Leesburg,ga at 591 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 89% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Flint River at Albany, GA.

Normal flows here

Kinchafoonee Creek runs a median of 262 cfs at this gauge across 41 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 680 cfs, and September the leanest at 162 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 25,000 cfs in 1994, and the lowest is 26 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1985 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Kinchafoonee Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 13 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 26.6 feet, in July 1994.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge DSNG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.