Whites C at Old Hickory Blvd at Whites Creek, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03431530 sits on Whites C and reads everything draining 14 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Sycamore basin. Its datum sits 462 feet above sea level NAVD88.

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 Whites Creek near Bordeaux, TN at 51 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 27% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Briley Pkwy at Cockrill Bend, Cumberland River at Ashland City, TN and Cumberland River below Cheatham Dam, TN. It then enters Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN, below which releases set the flow.

Flood stages and record crests

Whites C reaches flood stage at this gauge at 14 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.1 feet, in September 2017.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WCRT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Old Hickory Dam is 9 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Old Hickory Dam 9 miles
• J Percy Priest Dam 14 miles
• Cheatham Dam 22 miles