Prairie Creek on Creek 764 near Punta Gorda 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 02298170 sits on Prairie Creek on Creek 764 and reads everything draining 260 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 12 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2010, 8 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Prairie Creek near Fort Ogden FL, reading 233 square miles. This gauge adds the 27 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Shell Creek near Punta Gorda FL at 373 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 70% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Prairie Creek on Creek 764 runs a median of 61 cfs at this gauge across 8 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 571 cfs, and April the leanest at 27 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,050 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is -1.9 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2010 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.