Wildcat Creek below Rock Hill, 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 021473428 sits on Wildcat Creek and reads everything draining 30 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 507 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 4 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 Fishing Creek below Fort Lawn, SC at 280 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 11% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Wildcat Creek runs a median of 7.1 cfs at this gauge across 4 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 16 cfs, and August the leanest at 2.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,300 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2008.

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

Flood stages and record crests

Wildcat Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 18.6 feet, in March 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WCCS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.