Little Sugar Creek at Hillside Ave, 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 02146420 sits on Little Sugar Creek and reads everything draining 15 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 595 feet above sea level NAVD88.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Ltl Sugar Creek at Medical Center Dr at Charlotte, NC, reading 12 square miles. This gauge adds the 3.2 square miles that drain in between. 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 35% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Sugar Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 14 feet, in August 2010.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LSHN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.