About this river
Tangle Creek is a 3.4 mile river near Bartlett Lake Marina in Arizona. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Verde Rvr below Tangle Creek, above Horseshoe Dam, AZ (site 09508500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1945 to 2025
Tangle Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 512 cfs, and lowest in June, at 111 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 110,000 cfs, in 1993.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 306 | 254 to 457 | |
| February | 340 | 249 to 949 | |
| March | 512 | 249 to 1,690 | |
| April | 242 | 181 to 509 | |
| May | 152 | 124 to 205 | |
| June | 111 | 85 to 133 | |
| July | 127 | 95 to 178 | |
| August | 196 | 139 to 304 | |
| September | 173 | 133 to 240 | |
| October | 185 | 154 to 227 | |
| November | 244 | 210 to 275 | |
| December | 278 | 249 to 329 |
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 80 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Verde Rvr below Tangle Creek, above Horseshoe Dam, AZ (site 09508500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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