Little Mountain Creek at NC Hwy 740 at Badin, 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 02123629 sits on Little Mountain Creek and reads everything draining 5.6 square miles of the Upper Pee Dee basin. Its datum sits 456 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2022, 3 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 Lake Tillery on Pee Dee River near Norwood, NC at 4,640 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Pee Dee River at Hwy731 below Lake Tillery near Norwood, NC, Pee Dee River at Pee Dee Refuge near Ansonville, NC and Pee Dee River below Powerhouse Dam near Pee Dee, NC.

Normal flows here

Little Mountain Creek runs a median of 1.0 cfs at this gauge across 3 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 3.7 cfs, and October the leanest at 0.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 382 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2022 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.