Sweetwater Creek near Sulphur 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 02306500 sits on Sweetwater Creek and reads everything draining 7.4 square miles of the Tampa Bay basin. Its datum sits 26 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1952, 75 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Four gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lake Ellen near Sulphur Springs FL, reading 4.2 square miles. This gauge adds the 3.2 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Sweetwater Creek near Tampa FL at 14 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 52% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Sweetwater Creek runs a median of 1.1 cfs at this gauge across 75 years of record. August is the fullest month at a median 8.7 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.4 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 434 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1957.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1952 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.