Little Back Creek near Sunrise, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02011490 sits on Little Back Creek and reads everything draining 4.9 square miles of the Upper James basin. Its datum sits 2,638 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1985, 42 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 Back Creek near Mountain Grove, VA at 134 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Jackson River below Gathright Dam near Hot Springs, VA, Jackson River at Falling Spring, VA and Jackson River below Dunlap Creek at Covington, VA. It then enters Lake Moomaw (North) near Hot Springs, VA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Little Back Creek runs a median of 4.3 cfs at this gauge across 42 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 6.5 cfs, and September the leanest at 3.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 226 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 0.9 cfs in 1985.

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