Shoal Creek at Iron City, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03588500 sits on Shoal Creek and reads everything draining 348 square miles of the Pickwick Lake basin. Its datum sits 534 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1925, 95 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 Wilson Lake near Florence, Al at 30,750 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Shoal Creek runs a median of 326 cfs at this gauge across 95 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 745 cfs, and September the leanest at 154 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 44,000 cfs in 1948, and the lowest is 41 cfs in 1925.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1925 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Shoal Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 14 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 28.1 feet, in March 1902.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge IRCT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Wilson Dam is 16 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Wilson Dam 16 miles
• Wheeler Dam 19 miles