Mill Creek at Dalton, 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 02385500 sits on Mill Creek and reads everything draining 40 square miles of the Conasauga basin. Its datum sits 690 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1943, 37 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 Coahulla Creek at Keiths Mill Road, near Dalton,ga at 176 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 23% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Conasauga River at Tilton, GA, Conasauga River at Sloan Bridge, below Dalton, GA and Oostanaula River at Resaca, GA.

Normal flows here

Mill Creek runs a median of 30 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 72 cfs, and September the leanest at 19 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,680 cfs in 1951, and the lowest is 1.2 cfs in 2007.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1943 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Mill Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 11 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 14.7 feet, in April 2020.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge DLNG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Carters Rereg Dam is 20 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Carters Rereg Dam 20 miles