About this river
Clear Creek is a 10.3 mile river near Paddle Dynamics in Tennessee. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Clear Creek at Lilly Bridge near Lancing, TN (site 03539778). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1997 to 2026
Clear Creek typically runs highest in February, at a median 371 cfs, and lowest in September, at 9.2 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 14,500 cfs, in 2020.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 299 | 166 to 558 | |
| February | 371 | 237 to 705 | |
| March | 341 | 206 to 582 | |
| April | 290 | 164 to 523 | |
| May | 125 | 80 to 223 | |
| June | 33 | 13 to 100 | |
| July | 32 | 11 to 103 | |
| August | 18 | 5.9 to 49 | |
| September | 9.2 | 2.5 to 46 | |
| October | 10 | 1.9 to 54 | |
| November | 35 | 8.3 to 204 | |
| December | 254 | 111 to 502 |
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 29 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Clear Creek at Lilly Bridge near Lancing, TN (site 03539778). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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