Payne Creek near Bowling Green FL 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 02295420 sits on Payne Creek and reads everything draining 121 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 51 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1964, 52 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 Peace River at State Hwy 664A near Wauchula FL at 754 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 16% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River at US 17 at Zolfo Springs, FL and Peace River at SR 70 at Arcadia, FL.

Normal flows here

Payne Creek runs a median of 49 cfs at this gauge across 52 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 160 cfs, and May the leanest at 18 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 7,470 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.