TidalMapTown Creek near Geraldine AL Water Level Today
NWS river forecast
| When | Stage | Flow |
|---|
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 03572900 sits on Town Creek and reads everything draining 141 square miles of the Guntersville Lake basin. Its datum sits 1,002 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1958, 10 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 Guntersville Lake at 24,450 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there.
Normal flows here
Town Creek runs a median of 96 cfs at this gauge across 10 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 431 cfs, and September the leanest at 6.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 12,000 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1960.
| Month | Median flow | Share of annual median |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 338 cfs | 351% |
| Feb | 323 cfs | 335% |
| Mar | 431 cfs | 447% |
| Apr | 238 cfs | 246% |
| May | 124 cfs | 128% |
| Jun | 56 cfs | 59% |
| Jul | 26 cfs | 27% |
| Aug | 19 cfs | 20% |
| Sep | 6.6 cfs | 7% |
| Oct | 10 cfs | 11% |
| Nov | 44 cfs | 45% |
| Dec | 158 cfs | 164% |
Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1958 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.
Dams near this gauge
The Army Corps' Weiss Dam is 20 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.
- Weiss Dam 20 miles
- Guntersville Dam 23 miles
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Live streamflow and gage height: USGS gauge 03572900. Percentile context computed against the gauge's period of record. Not for navigation.
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