Shell Creek on Creek 764 near Punta Gorda 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 02297635 sits on Shell Creek on Creek 764 and reads everything draining 90 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 15 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2010, 8 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 Shell Creek near Punta Gorda FL at 373 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 24% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Shell Creek on Creek 764 runs a median of 36 cfs at this gauge across 8 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 204 cfs, and April the leanest at 18 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,820 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is -12.3 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2010 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.