Twelvemile Creek near Liberty, SC 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 02186000 sits on Twelvemile Creek and reads everything draining 106 square miles of the Seneca basin. Its datum sits 822 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1954, 43 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 Hartwell Lake near Hartwell, GA at 2,088 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 5% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Twelvemile Creek runs a median of 128 cfs at this gauge across 43 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 204 cfs, and September the leanest at 82 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 6,830 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 12 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1954 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Twelvemile Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 7.5 feet. The highest crest on record is 17.3 feet, in February 2020.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LIBS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.