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Little Sugar Creek near Optimist Training

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About this river

Little Sugar Creek is a 2.0 mile river near Optimist Training in South Carolina. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC (site 02146530). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1997 to 2026

Little Sugar Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 50 cfs, and lowest in October, at 32 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 6,780 cfs, in 1997.

Typical flow by month at Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January4736 to 71
February5039 to 84
March5041 to 79
April4837 to 77
May4334 to 68
June4132 to 76
July3831 to 72
August3830 to 76
September3428 to 48
October3228 to 38
November3428 to 51
December4233 to 68

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 Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, NC (site 02146530). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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