Town Creek near Nettleton, MS 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 02436500 sits on Town Creek and reads everything draining 620 square miles of the Town basin. Its datum sits 194 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 86 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Town Creek at Eason Boulevard at Tupelo, MS, reading 233 square miles. This gauge adds the 387 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Tombigbee River near Amory, MS at 1,930 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 32% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Town Creek runs a median of 180 cfs at this gauge across 86 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 741 cfs, and September the leanest at 37 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 95,300 cfs in 1955, and the lowest is 1.0 cfs in 1942.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.