About this river
Steele Creek is a 1.9 mile stream near Riverside Marina, Paddle and Row in North Carolina. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Steele Creek at SR1441 near Pineville, NC (site 0214678175). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1998 to 2026
Steele Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 3.6 cfs, and lowest in October, at 0.8 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 603 cfs, in 2024.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2 | 1.4 to 7.1 | |
| February | 3.4 | 1.8 to 8.3 | |
| March | 3.6 | 2.3 to 7.9 | |
| April | 2.5 | 1.6 to 6.5 | |
| May | 1.8 | 0.9 to 4.7 | |
| June | 1.4 | 0.6 to 5.3 | |
| July | 1.2 | 0.5 to 3.7 | |
| August | 1.3 | 0.4 to 4.2 | |
| September | 0.9 | 0.4 to 2.3 | |
| October | 0.8 | 0.5 to 1.7 | |
| November | 1.1 | 0.6 to 3.0 | |
| December | 2.3 | 0.9 to 6.5 |
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 28 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Steele Creek at SR1441 near Pineville, NC (site 0214678175). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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