North Fork Edisto River at Orangeburg, SC
Orangeburg County, South Carolina · USGS 02173500
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What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on North Fork Edisto River at its USGS monitoring location in Orangeburg County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 14 minutes ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Below historical median · Steady
Streamflow is currently 279 ft³/s, 43% below the historical median for this date. Flow has been relatively steady over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 491 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 260 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 295 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 313 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 310 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 295 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 278 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 262 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 248 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 236 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 236 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 257 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 289 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 311 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 310 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 293 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 281 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 294 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 325 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 350 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 348 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 313 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 282 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 265 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 272 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 263 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 251 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 248 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 262 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 275 CFS |
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