Little Fishing Creek near White Oak, NC Flow & Water Level

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 02082950 sits on Little Fishing Creek and reads everything draining 177 square miles of the Fishing basin. Its datum sits 116 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1960, 67 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 Fishing Creek near Enfield, NC at 526 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 34% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Little Fishing Creek runs a median of 60 cfs at this gauge across 67 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 174 cfs, and September the leanest at 21 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 20,000 cfs in 1999, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1960 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Fishing Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 16 feet. NWS starts watching it at 15 feet. The highest crest on record is 30.8 feet, in September 1999.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge RNGN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.