Muckalee Creek at GA 195, near Leesburg, 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 02351890 sits on Muckalee Creek and reads everything draining 362 square miles of the Kinchafoonee-Muckalee basin. Its datum sits 216 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1980, 47 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Muckalee Creek near Americus, GA, reading 140 square miles. This gauge adds the 222 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Flint River at Albany, GA at 5,310 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Muckalee Creek runs a median of 190 cfs at this gauge across 47 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 487 cfs, and September the leanest at 120 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 36,000 cfs in 1994, and the lowest is 3.6 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1980 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Muckalee Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 13 feet. NWS starts watching it at 11 feet. The highest crest on record is 29.1 feet, in July 1994.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MCKG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.