About this river
Cunningham Creek is a 4.2 mile stream near Birmingham Canoe Club in Alabama. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Turkey Creek at Morris AL (site 02456000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1944 to 2026
Cunningham Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 182 cfs, and lowest in October, at 20 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 12,000 cfs, in 1961.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 123 | 69 to 230 | |
| February | 153 | 94 to 290 | |
| March | 182 | 121 to 294 | |
| April | 116 | 82 to 212 | |
| May | 66 | 44 to 110 | |
| June | 40 | 28 to 63 | |
| July | 33 | 22 to 54 | |
| August | 27 | 19 to 38 | |
| September | 23 | 16 to 38 | |
| October | 20 | 15 to 32 | |
| November | 29 | 18 to 52 | |
| December | 57 | 32 to 153 |
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 52 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Turkey Creek at Morris AL (site 02456000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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