Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill
Highest listed crest 12.75 ftFlood stage 11.0 ft3 crests since 2024
The Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill crested above flood stage 3 times among the 3 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2024 to 2025. The highest, 12.75 ft on August 8, 2024, was minor flooding, 1.75 feet above flood stage. 1 other gauge on the Morgan Creek crested above flood stage within a week of it.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 12.75 ft
- August 8, 2024
- Flood stage
- 11.0 ft
- No major stage set
- Crests at major
- 0
- 3 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- May 15, 2025
- 11.37 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 10.0 | 0 | — |
| Flood stage (minor) | 11.0 | 3 | May 15, 2025 |
| Moderate flood stage | 13.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
3 crests from 2024 to 2025. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
Highest crests
| 1 | Aug 8, 2024 | 12.75 | +1.75 | Minor |
| 2 | Sep 27, 2024 | 12.09 | +1.09 | Minor |
| 3 | May 15, 2025 | 11.37 | +0.37 | Minor |
The worst floods along the Morgan Creek
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Morgan Creek that crested above flood stage within a week.
August 8, 2024: 12.75 ft here, minor flooding
- White CrossNC · Aug 8, 2024 · 8.04 ft · Minor
September 27, 2024: 12.09 ft here, minor flooding
- White CrossNC · Sep 27, 2024 · 8.72 ft · Minor
May 15, 2025: 11.37 ft here, minor flooding
- White CrossNC · May 14, 2025 · 8.09 ft · Minor
Gauges on the Morgan Creek
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| White Cross | NC | 9.87 ft, Sep 17, 2018 | 0 |
| Chapel Hill this gauge | NC | 12.75 ft, Aug 8, 2024 | 0 |
Other gauges in Orange County
| Village Drive | 23.10 ft, Sep 6, 1996 | 3 |
| Chapel Hill | 17.61 ft, Sep 17, 2018 | 0 |
| Carrboro | 9.74 ft, Jul 6, 2025 | 0 |
| Hillsborough | 21.13 ft, Sep 6, 1996 | 1 |
| White Cross | 9.87 ft, Sep 17, 2018 | 0 |
Orange County: every hazard · River floods across the country · North Carolina
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MGCN7, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.