Little Sugar Creek below 36Th Street near 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 0214640410 sits on Little Sugar Creek and reads everything draining 3.4 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 673 feet above sea level NAVD88.

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 Ltl Sugar Creek at Medical Center Dr at Charlotte, NC at 12 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 29% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Little Sugar Creek at Hillside Ave, Charlotte, NC, Little Sugar C at Archdale Dr at Charlotte, NC and Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC.

Flood stages and record crests

Little Sugar Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 11 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.1 feet, in September 2008.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LSTN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.