Saddle Creek at Structure P-11 near Bartow 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 02294491 sits on Saddle Creek and reads everything draining 135 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 83 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1965, 54 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Saddle Creek at State Hwy 570 near Eaton Park FL, reading 61 square miles. This gauge adds the 74 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Peace River at SR 60 at Bartow, FL at 390 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 35% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River near Bartow FL, Peace River at Clear Springs near Bartow FL and Peace River near Homeland FL.

Normal flows here

Saddle Creek runs a median of 0.3 cfs at this gauge across 54 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 42 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,620 cfs in 2004, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2014.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1965 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.