About this river
Buffalo Creek is a 17.3 mile river near Morgantown Adventure Outfitters in West Virginia. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Buffalo Creek at Barrackville, WV (site 03061500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1907 to 2026
Buffalo Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 193 cfs, and lowest in September, at 11 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 5,710 cfs, in 1948.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 130 | 70 to 277 | |
| February | 167 | 92 to 339 | |
| March | 193 | 118 to 364 | |
| April | 148 | 87 to 292 | |
| May | 94 | 50 to 206 | |
| June | 37 | 17 to 83 | |
| July | 21 | 8.9 to 49 | |
| August | 16 | 6.2 to 40 | |
| September | 11 | 4.5 to 28 | |
| October | 11 | 5.6 to 32 | |
| November | 35 | 15 to 97 | |
| December | 98 | 46 to 223 |
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 104 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Buffalo Creek at Barrackville, WV (site 03061500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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