About this river
Mill Creek is a 2.0 mile river near Raccoon Lake Boat Rental- Marina in Indiana. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Mill Creek near Cataract, IN (site 03358000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 7. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1988 to 2026
Mill Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 259 cfs, and lowest in September, at 13 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 9,870 cfs, in 2008.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 234 | 100 to 577 | |
| February | 195 | 116 to 404 | |
| March | 259 | 147 to 485 | |
| April | 242 | 147 to 479 | |
| May | 179 | 98 to 406 | |
| June | 115 | 51 to 282 | |
| July | 52 | 27 to 157 | |
| August | 18 | 10 to 38 | |
| September | 13 | 5.3 to 41 | |
| October | 20 | 7.6 to 100 | |
| November | 55 | 18 to 137 | |
| December | 130 | 32 to 281 |
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 37 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Mill Creek near Cataract, IN (site 03358000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
Boat access nearby
2 mapped launches sit in the mapped area of Mill Creek, all of them public access. Ramp data comes from the USGS national boat-ramp inventory.
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