Mulberry Fork near Garden City, AL 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 02450000 sits on the Mulberry Fork and reads everything draining 358 square miles of the Mulberry basin. Its datum sits 393 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1929, 90 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Mulberry Fork near Holly Pond, AL, reading 110 square miles. This gauge adds the 248 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Mulberry Fork near Arkadelphia, AL at 487 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 74% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Mulberry Fork runs a median of 167 cfs at this gauge across 90 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 892 cfs, and October the leanest at 30 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 45,900 cfs in 1990, and the lowest is 3.0 cfs in 1931.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1929 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Smith Dam is 22 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Smith Dam 22 miles