Mountain Creek near Glendale, TN 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 03569190 sits on Mountain Creek and reads everything draining 5.1 square miles of the Middle Tennessee-Chickamauga basin. Its datum sits 654 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2020, 7 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 Nickajack Lake at 21,870 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Mountain Creek runs a median of 3.0 cfs at this gauge across 7 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 13 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 304 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2020 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Chickamauga Dam is 5 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Chickamauga Dam 5 miles
• Nickajack Dam 19 miles