Saddle Creek at St.hwy 542 near Lakeland 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 02294217 sits on Saddle Creek and reads everything draining 53 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 90 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1988, 31 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 Saddle Creek at State Hwy 570 near Eaton Park FL at 61 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 87% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Saddle Creek at Structure P-11 near Bartow FL, Peace River at SR 60 at Bartow, FL and Peace River near Bartow FL.

Normal flows here

Saddle Creek runs a median of 7.5 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 61 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 893 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1988 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.