About this river
Mill Creek is a 4.2 mile stream near Quad Cities Kayak River Adventures in Illinois. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Mill Creek at Milan, IL (site 05448000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1940 to 2026
Mill Creek typically runs highest in April, at a median 50 cfs, and lowest in September, at 4.4 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 5,000 cfs, in 1986.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 | 4.9 to 35 | |
| February | 20 | 10 to 45 | |
| March | 38 | 22 to 71 | |
| April | 50 | 26 to 84 | |
| May | 44 | 24 to 79 | |
| June | 33 | 15 to 71 | |
| July | 19 | 9.1 to 33 | |
| August | 7.5 | 3.6 to 17 | |
| September | 4.4 | 1.9 to 13 | |
| October | 4.7 | 2.2 to 19 | |
| November | 9.0 | 3.4 to 23 | |
| December | 13 | 4.0 to 29 |
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 85 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Mill Creek at Milan, IL (site 05448000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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