Village Creek near Docena, Alabama 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 02458600 sits on Village Creek and reads everything draining 52 square miles of the Locust basin. Its datum sits 493 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 30 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Four gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Village Creek near Pratt City, Alabama, reading 37 square miles. This gauge adds the 16 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Village Creek near Adamsville, AL at 84 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 63% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Village Creek runs a median of 98 cfs at this gauge across 30 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 151 cfs, and October the leanest at 70 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,380 cfs in 2004, and the lowest is 18 cfs in 2016.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.