Whidden Creek near Fort Meade FL 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 02295163 sits on Whidden Creek and reads everything draining 43 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 57 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 20 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 Peace River at Bowling Green FL at 613 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River at State Hwy 664A near Wauchula FL and Peace River at US 17 at Zolfo Springs, FL.

Normal flows here

Whidden Creek runs a median of 20 cfs at this gauge across 20 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 26 cfs, and May the leanest at 12 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 321 cfs in 2004, and the lowest is 1.3 cfs in 2022.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.