Little Haynes Creek at Dial Mill Rd near Milstead 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 02207435 sits on Little Haynes Creek and reads everything draining 26 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 646 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 22 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 Big Haynes Creek at Bald Rock Road, near Milstead GA at 82 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 31% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River Rocky Plains Rd near Rocky Plains, GA and Ocmulgee River near Jackson, GA. It then enters Jackson Lake Lloyd Shoals near Jackson, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Little Haynes Creek runs a median of 21 cfs at this gauge across 22 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 40 cfs, and September the leanest at 10 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,660 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Haynes Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.1 feet, in April 2019.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MLHG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.