Spring Creek near Iron City, GA 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 02357000 sits on Spring Creek and reads everything draining 490 square miles of the Spring basin. Its datum sits 86 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1937, 80 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Spring Creek Approx 25 Mi US Us27 near Colquitt, GA, reading 283 square miles. This gauge adds the 207 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Spring Creek near Reynoldsville, GA at 571 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 86% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Apalachicola River below Woodruff Dam, near Sneads, FL and Apalachicola River at Chattahoochee Fla.

Normal flows here

Spring Creek runs a median of 172 cfs at this gauge across 80 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 785 cfs, and October the leanest at 87 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 32,000 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1937 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Spring Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 16 feet. NWS starts watching it at 12 feet. The highest crest on record is 24.4 feet, in March 1998.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge IRCG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Jim Woodruff Dam is 24 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Jim Woodruff Dam 24 miles