Taggart Creek at West Boulevard near Charlotte, NC 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 02146315 sits on Taggart Creek and reads everything draining 5.7 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 604 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 28 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 Sugar Creek at Arrowood Road near Charlotte, NC at 44 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 13% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Sugar Creek at NC 51 near Pineville, NC.

Normal flows here

Taggart Creek runs a median of 1.4 cfs at this gauge across 28 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 2.7 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 530 cfs in 2021, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1998 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Taggart Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 19 feet. NWS starts watching it at 17 feet. The highest crest on record is 10.4 feet, in June 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WSTN7. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.