Rivers in Iowa

Bluff Creek at Pilot Mound

Boone County, IowaNWS PMDI4USGS 05481510Des Moines office

No flood stages set
81.99ftStage

Observed Tue, Sep 22, 11:15 AM CDT

Record crest
89.25 ft1993

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Crest history

41 crests on NOAA’s list since 1969.

#DateStage
1July 9, 199389.25 ft
2August 28, 201589.20 ft
3February 23, 198288.93 ft
4August 10, 201088.86 ft
5June 16, 199088.85 ft
6June 4, 199188.58 ft
7June 13, 198488.49 ft
8August 20, 200788.40 ft
9March 13, 201987.83 ft
10May 30, 200887.51 ft
11June 30, 201487.20 ft
12May 27, 201387.18 ft
13June 30, 198687.10 ft
14May 5, 200186.96 ft
15March 10, 197986.77 ft
16September 5, 201886.31 ft
17June 15, 199886.19 ft
18May 28, 199585.94 ft
19February 18, 199485.77 ft
20June 12, 199985.71 ft
21May 26, 202085.62 ft
22December 15, 201585.56 ft
23February 18, 197185.55 ft
24October 11, 198685.50 ft
25September 26, 197385.46 ft

Most recent crests

  • July 20, 2025: 85.25 ft
  • May 21, 2024: 84.77 ft
  • June 18, 2023: 82.93 ft
  • June 15, 2022: 82.95 ft
  • March 3, 2021: 81.97 ft
  • May 26, 2020: 85.62 ft
  • March 13, 2019: 87.83 ft
  • September 5, 2018: 86.31 ft
  • May 20, 2017: 83.73 ft
  • December 15, 2015: 85.56 ft

Nearby

Upstream, downstream and the gauges around this one.

What this means

Forecasts by the North Central River Forecast Center. Forecasts are not available. Only observed stages are available for this point.

Sources

Stage, flood stages, impacts and crest history from NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service. Streamflow and the daily record from the U.S. Geological Survey.