Little Stone Mountain Creek near Stone Mountain, 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 02207135 sits on Little Stone Mountain Creek and reads everything draining 2.2 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 871 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2013, 14 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 Stone Mountain Creek at GA 124, near Lithonia, GA at 28 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River at Pleasant Hill Road, near Lithonia,ga, Yellow River at Milstead, GA and Yellow River at Gees Mill Road, near Milstead, GA.

Normal flows here

Little Stone Mountain Creek runs a median of 1.6 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 2.7 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 111 cfs in 2016, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2020.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2013 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Stone Mountain Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 8 feet. NWS starts watching it at 6 feet.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LSMG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 17 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 17 miles
• Buford Dam 23 miles