About this river
Murder Creek is a 19.3 mile river near Oconee Wild Watersports in Georgia. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Murder Creek below Eatonton, GA (site 02221525). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1977 to 2026
Murder Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 169 cfs, and lowest in September, at 28 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 7,150 cfs, in 1998.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 130 | 78 to 211 | |
| February | 168 | 112 to 295 | |
| March | 169 | 126 to 279 | |
| April | 149 | 102 to 229 | |
| May | 87 | 57 to 121 | |
| June | 62 | 37 to 89 | |
| July | 44 | 20 to 73 | |
| August | 32 | 15 to 65 | |
| September | 28 | 13 to 48 | |
| October | 29 | 17 to 52 | |
| November | 48 | 34 to 82 | |
| December | 79 | 47 to 147 |
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 49 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Murder Creek below Eatonton, GA (site 02221525). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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