Village Creek near Pratt City, 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 02458502 sits on Village Creek and reads everything draining 37 square miles of the Locust basin. Its datum sits 500 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 21 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Village Creek at Avenue W at Ensley, AL, reading 34 square miles. This gauge adds the 3.2 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Village Creek near Docena, Alabama at 52 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 70% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Village Creek near Adamsville, AL.

Normal flows here

Village Creek runs a median of 48 cfs at this gauge across 21 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 74 cfs, and October the leanest at 29 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,160 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 11 cfs in 1999.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1998 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.