About this river
Long Creek is a 2.5 mile river near Riverside Marina, Paddle and Row in North Carolina. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Long Creek near Bessemer City, NC (site 02144000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1953 to 2026
Long Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 35 cfs, and lowest in September, at 7.3 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 2,940 cfs, in 1972.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28 | 17 to 42 | |
| February | 32 | 22 to 47 | |
| March | 35 | 25 to 50 | |
| April | 30 | 21 to 43 | |
| May | 22 | 14 to 29 | |
| June | 15 | 8.7 to 23 | |
| July | 10 | 5.3 to 18 | |
| August | 9.0 | 4.4 to 16 | |
| September | 7.3 | 3.6 to 13 | |
| October | 8.4 | 5.2 to 16 | |
| November | 12 | 7.3 to 21 | |
| December | 22 | 13 to 32 |
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 74 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Long Creek near Bessemer City, NC (site 02144000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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