Saddle Creek at State Hwy 570 near Eaton 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 02294290 sits on Saddle Creek and reads everything draining 61 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 87 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2009, 17 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Saddle Creek at St.hwy 542 near Lakeland FL, reading 53 square miles. This gauge adds the 8.0 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Saddle Creek at Structure P-11 near Bartow FL at 135 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 45% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River at SR 60 at Bartow, FL, Peace River near Bartow FL and Peace River at Clear Springs near Bartow FL.

Normal flows here

Saddle Creek runs a median of 14 cfs at this gauge across 17 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 137 cfs, and May the leanest at 2.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,230 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is -13.6 cfs in 2016.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2009 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.