Prairie Creek near Fort Ogden 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 02298123 sits on Prairie Creek and reads everything draining 233 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 25 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1964, 53 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 Prairie Creek on Creek 764 near Punta Gorda FL at 260 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 90% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Shell Creek near Punta Gorda FL.

Normal flows here

Prairie Creek runs a median of 42 cfs at this gauge across 53 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 390 cfs, and May the leanest at 15 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 6,030 cfs in 2017, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1965.

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