About this river
Big Walnut Creek is a 3.0 mile river near Raccoon Lake Boat Rental- Marina in Indiana. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Walnut Creek near Reelsville, IN (site 03357500). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 8. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1950 to 2002
Big Walnut Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 393 cfs, and lowest in September, at 31 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 18,600 cfs, in 1957.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 190 | 94 to 422 | |
| February | 272 | 130 to 566 | |
| March | 393 | 215 to 743 | |
| April | 376 | 236 to 637 | |
| May | 224 | 148 to 422 | |
| June | 156 | 95 to 320 | |
| July | 99 | 53 to 188 | |
| August | 48 | 31 to 86 | |
| September | 31 | 17 to 78 | |
| October | 41 | 17 to 103 | |
| November | 84 | 33 to 212 | |
| December | 188 | 60 to 394 |
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 53 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Walnut Creek near Reelsville, IN (site 03357500). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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