Rocky Creek at St Hwy 587 at Citrus Park 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 02306774 sits on Rocky Creek and reads everything draining 18 square miles of the Tampa Bay basin. Only 18 square miles of that contributes flow in a normal year; the rest is closed basin that does not drain to the river. Its datum sits 1 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1986, 40 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Half Moon Lake near Citrus Park FL, reading 0.2 square miles. This gauge adds the 18 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Rocky Creek near Sulphur Springs FL at 35 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 51% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Rocky Creek runs a median of 2.3 cfs at this gauge across 40 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 31 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,590 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1994.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1986 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.