Little Hope Creek at Seneca Place at Charlotte, 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 02146470 sits on Little Hope Creek and reads everything draining 2.6 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 597 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1983, 39 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 Little Sugar C at Archdale Dr at Charlotte, NC at 43 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 6% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC.

Normal flows here

Little Hope Creek runs a median of 0.8 cfs at this gauge across 39 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 1.5 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.4 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 282 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1983 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Hope Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 8.5 feet. NWS starts watching it at 7 feet. The highest crest on record is 9.9 feet, in June 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LHCN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.