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The Marina at Lake Blackshear Resort

Kinchafoonee Creek near Cordele, GA

River62.1 mi

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Around Kinchafoonee Creek

10 mi

Data Source: Recreation.gov · Public land: USGS PAD-US

About this river

Kinchafoonee Creek is a 62.1 mile river near The Marina at Lake Blackshear Resort in Georgia. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Kinchafoonee Creek at Pinewood Road, near Dawson, GA (site 02350900). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1985 to 2026

Kinchafoonee Creek typically runs highest in February, at a median 680 cfs, and lowest in September, at 163 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 25,000 cfs, in 1994.

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Typical flow by month at Kinchafoonee Creek at Pinewood Road, near Dawson, GA, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)
January566400 to 880
February680467 to 1,090
March677478 to 1,040
April574363 to 840
May281178 to 479
June226123 to 381
July201123 to 379
August16697 to 309
September163108 to 263
October168115 to 282
November236169 to 429
December415282 to 709

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 41 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Kinchafoonee Creek at Pinewood Road, near Dawson, GA (site 02350900). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

Boat access nearby

3 mapped launches sit in the mapped area of Kinchafoonee Creek, all of them public access. Ramp data comes from the USGS national boat-ramp inventory.

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