Talking Rock Creek near Hinton, 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 02382200 sits on Talking Rock Creek and reads everything draining 119 square miles of the Coosawattee basin. Its datum sits 894 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1974, 53 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 Carters Re-Regulation Lake near Carters, GA at 520 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 23% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Coosawattee River at Carters, GA, Coosawattee River near Pine Chapel, GA and Coosawattee River at Pine Chapel, GA.

Normal flows here

Talking Rock Creek runs a median of 114 cfs at this gauge across 53 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 213 cfs, and September the leanest at 54 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 7,700 cfs in 2016, and the lowest is 1.6 cfs in 2007.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1974 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Talking Rock Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.7 feet, in July 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge TKRG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Carters Rereg Dam is 7 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Carters Rereg Dam 7 miles