About this river
Plum Creek is a 9.4 mile river near Paddle With Style in Texas. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Plum Ck at Lockhart, TX (site 08172400). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1964 to 2026
Plum Creek typically runs highest in February, at a median 8.6 cfs, and lowest in August, at 0.0 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 19,400 cfs, in 1999.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4 | 1.4 to 23 | |
| February | 8.6 | 2.4 to 29 | |
| March | 7.8 | 1.7 to 23 | |
| April | 5.0 | 0.4 to 18 | |
| May | 6.8 | 0.5 to 37 | |
| June | 4.5 | 0.0 to 37 | |
| July | 0.2 | 0.0 to 5.6 | |
| August | 0.0 | 0.0 to 1.3 | |
| September | 0.1 | 0.0 to 3.4 | |
| October | 0.4 | 0.0 to 4.7 | |
| November | 1.6 | 0.0 to 11 | |
| December | 4.8 | 0.0 to 19 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 63 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Plum Ck at Lockhart, TX (site 08172400). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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