About this river
Big Nance Creek is a 12.3 mile river near ADVENTURES OF KAYAKING in Alabama. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Nance Creek at Courtland AL (site 03586500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1935 to 2026
Big Nance Creek typically runs highest in February, at a median 278 cfs, and lowest in September, at 10 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 18,400 cfs, in 1991.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 261 | 134 to 562 | |
| February | 278 | 153 to 591 | |
| March | 277 | 161 to 565 | |
| April | 184 | 106 to 381 | |
| May | 69 | 46 to 170 | |
| June | 38 | 22 to 84 | |
| July | 25 | 10 to 68 | |
| August | 14 | 6.8 to 35 | |
| September | 10 | 3.8 to 34 | |
| October | 10 | 2.6 to 33 | |
| November | 25 | 7.2 to 98 | |
| December | 134 | 47 to 351 |
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 79 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Nance Creek at Courtland AL (site 03586500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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