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Shoe Heel Creek in North Carolina

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Around Shoe Heel Creek

5 mi

Public land: USGS PAD-US

About this river

Shoe Heel Creek is a 29.3 mile river. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Shoe Heel Creek near Laurinburg, NC (site 02132320). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1987 to 2026

Shoe Heel Creek typically runs highest in January, at a median 103 cfs, and lowest in July, at 40 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 5,310 cfs, in 2018.

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Typical flow by month at Big Shoe Heel Creek near Laurinburg, NC, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)
January10371 to 151
February10275 to 145
March10274 to 142
April7857 to 116
May4735 to 73
June4128 to 72
July4025 to 61
August4526 to 75
September4730 to 90
October4833 to 83
November6544 to 102
December7959 to 121

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 39 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Shoe Heel Creek near Laurinburg, NC (site 02132320). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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