Pates Creek near Flippen, 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 02204285 sits on Pates Creek and reads everything draining 12 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 714 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1977, 27 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 South River at GA 81, at Snapping Shoals, GA at 468 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ocmulgee River near Jackson, GA. It then enters Jackson Lake Lloyd Shoals near Jackson, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Pates Creek runs a median of 21 cfs at this gauge across 27 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 33 cfs, and September the leanest at 14 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 744 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1977 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Pates Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 16.2 feet, in July 1994.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge FLPG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.