Mountain Creek at Sr1617 near Bahama, 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 0208524090 sits on Mountain Creek and reads everything draining 8.0 square miles of the Upper Neuse basin. Its datum sits 360 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1995, 31 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 Little River Reservoir at Dam near Bahama, NC at 98 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Little River below Little River Tributary at Fairntosh, NC.

Normal flows here

Mountain Creek runs a median of 1.7 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 6.1 cfs, and August the leanest at 0.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,000 cfs in 1996, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1995 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Mountain Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 12.9 feet, in September 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MBHN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.