Smith River at Eden, NC
Rockingham County, North Carolina · USGS 02074000
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Smith River at its USGS monitoring location in Rockingham County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 1 hour 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 · Falling
Streamflow is currently 217 ft³/s, 50% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 10 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 434 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 | 373 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 293 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 311 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 336 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 338 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 334 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 331 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 330 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 329 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 330 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 331 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 331 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 328 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 327 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 296 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 254 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 268 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 244 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 231 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 224 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 217 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 210 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 202 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 201 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 210 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 207 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 242 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 266 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 234 CFS |
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