Little River below Little River Tributary at Fairntosh, 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 0208524975 sits on the Little River and reads everything draining 99 square miles of the Upper Neuse basin. Its datum sits 264 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 30 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Little River Reservoir at Dam near Bahama, NC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Little River Reservoir at Dam near Bahama, NC, reading 98 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Falls Lake at Interstate 85 near Redwood, NC at 512 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Little River runs a median of 5.8 cfs at this gauge across 30 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 38 cfs, and August the leanest at 3.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 10,300 cfs in 1996, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2020.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The Little River reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. The highest crest on record is 16 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge FTHN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.