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Sugar Valley Canoe Trip Ltd

South Fork Little Raccoon Creek near Sugar Valley Canoe Trip Ltd

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About this river

South Fork Little Raccoon Creek is a 5.3 mile river near Sugar Valley Canoe Trip Ltd in Indiana. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Raccoon Creek near Fincastle, IN (site 03340800). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1958 to 2026

South Fork Little Raccoon Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 140 cfs, and lowest in September, at 8.3 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 14,700 cfs, in 2013.

Typical flow by month at Big Raccoon Creek near Fincastle, IN, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January7840 to 173
February9048 to 202
March14080 to 270
April12069 to 239
May8854 to 175
June6433 to 144
July2915 to 80
August127.0 to 32
September8.33.9 to 22
October114.4 to 37
November268.3 to 77
December6717 to 161

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 69 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Raccoon Creek near Fincastle, IN (site 03340800). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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