About this river
Oak Creek is a 17.6 mile river near Branched Oak Marina in Nebraska. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Oak Creek at Air Park Road at Lincoln, Nebr. (site 06803486). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
2000 to 2026
Oak Creek typically runs highest in June, at a median 56 cfs, and lowest in September, at 19 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 4,680 cfs, in 2019.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23 | 13 to 44 | |
| February | 24 | 15 to 49 | |
| March | 32 | 16 to 46 | |
| April | 29 | 15 to 56 | |
| May | 43 | 17 to 101 | |
| June | 56 | 17 to 133 | |
| July | 36 | 13 to 53 | |
| August | 23 | 10 to 44 | |
| September | 19 | 7.7 to 45 | |
| October | 20 | 8.5 to 40 | |
| November | 23 | 12 to 39 | |
| December | 22 | 12 to 37 |
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 27 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Oak Creek at Air Park Road at Lincoln, Nebr. (site 06803486). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
Boat access nearby
8 mapped launches sit in the mapped area of Oak Creek, all of them public access. Ramp data comes from the USGS national boat-ramp inventory.
- Boat Ramp #2Public
- Boat Ramp #1Public
- Bowling LakeBowling LakePublic
- Branched Oak 2Public
- Branched Oak 4Public
- Area 5Public
- Area 11-CPublic
- Area 11-BPublic
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