Santa Fe River at US Hwy 441 near High Springs,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 02321975 sits on the Santa Fe River and reads everything draining 859 square miles of the Santa Fe basin. Its datum sits 35 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1993, 16 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Santa Fe River at O'leno State Park Fla, reading 820 square miles. This gauge adds the 39 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Santa Fe River near Fort White, Fla at 1,017 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 84% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Santa Fe River near Hildreth Fla and Suwannee River near Bell, Florida.

Normal flows here

The Santa Fe River runs a median of 429 cfs at this gauge across 16 years of record. October is the fullest month at a median 582 cfs, and June the leanest at 278 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,150 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1993 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.