Yellowjacket Creek-Hammett Rd, below Hogansville, GA 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 02338840 sits on Yellowjacket Creek-Hammett Rd, and reads everything draining 91 square miles of the Middle Chattahoochee-Lake Harding basin. Its datum sits 641 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1979, 24 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 West Point Lake near West Point, GA at 3,440 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River below West Point Dam, GA and Chattahoochee River at West Point, GA.

Normal flows here

Yellowjacket Creek-Hammett Rd, runs a median of 50 cfs at this gauge across 24 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 132 cfs, and September the leanest at 18 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 6,870 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 0.5 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1979 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Yellowjacket Creek-Hammett Rd, reaches flood stage at this gauge at 8 feet. NWS starts watching it at 6 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.8 feet, in December 2015.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge YJCG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' West Point Dam is 20 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• West Point Dam 20 miles