About this river
Gills Creek is a 7.7 mile river near Palmetto Outdoor in South Carolina. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Gills Creek at Columbia, SC (site 02169570). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1967 to 2026
Gills Creek typically runs highest in January, at a median 81 cfs, and lowest in September, at 27 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 1,730 cfs, in 1986.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 81 | 54 to 124 | |
| February | 74 | 50 to 116 | |
| March | 66 | 41 to 115 | |
| April | 48 | 27 to 84 | |
| May | 33 | 20 to 60 | |
| June | 34 | 20 to 62 | |
| July | 31 | 16 to 64 | |
| August | 33 | 19 to 64 | |
| September | 27 | 15 to 52 | |
| October | 28 | 18 to 49 | |
| November | 39 | 26 to 64 | |
| December | 54 | 37 to 87 |
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 60 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Gills Creek at Columbia, SC (site 02169570). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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