About this river
Little Sandy Creek is a 9.7 mile stream near Cheat River Outfitters in West Virginia. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Sandy Creek at Rockville, WV (site 03070500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1909 to 2026
Little Sandy Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 532 cfs, and lowest in September, at 33 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 15,700 cfs, in 1911.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 393 | 201 to 710 | |
| February | 441 | 255 to 811 | |
| March | 532 | 333 to 896 | |
| April | 450 | 284 to 755 | |
| May | 336 | 180 to 606 | |
| June | 133 | 59 to 312 | |
| July | 64 | 31 to 174 | |
| August | 50 | 20 to 128 | |
| September | 33 | 13 to 94 | |
| October | 41 | 18 to 139 | |
| November | 177 | 82 to 360 | |
| December | 357 | 203 to 675 |
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 114 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Sandy Creek at Rockville, WV (site 03070500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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