Butte Creek at Monitor

Highest listed crest 16.34 ftFlood stage 14.0 ft1 crests since 2025

The Butte Creek at Monitor crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2025 to 2025. The highest, 16.34 ft on December 19, 2025, was minor flooding, 2.34 feet above flood stage.

The gauge

Highest listed crest: 16.34 ft; December 19, 2025; 6,650 cubic feet per second
Flood stage: 14.0 ft; No major stage set
Crests at major: 0; 1 above flood stage
Most recent flood crest: December 19, 2025; 16.34 ft, minor flooding
Location: Marion County; Near Woodburn (6.4 mi), Silverton (7.0 mi), Molalla (8.5 mi)
Identifiers: NWS BUMO3; USGS 14201500

Flood stages

The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.

Flood categories, Butte Creek at Monitor

Action stage	12.3	0	—	The level at which the NWS or its partners begin to take action
Flood stage (minor)	14.0	1	Dec 19, 2025	Minimal or no property damage, but possibly some public threat

Every listed crest

1 crests from 2025 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

Highest listed crests, Butte Creek at Monitor

1	Dec 19, 2025	16.34	+2.34	Minor	6,650

Other gauges in Marion County

Flood gauges in Marion County

Commercial Street in Salem	9.5	13.60 ft, Jan 19, 2012	1
Aumsville	10.8	13.00 ft, Dec 19, 2025	0
North Salem High School at Salem	10.3	12.61 ft, Jan 19, 2012	1
Spenner Road near Sublimity	5.5	7.14 ft, Dec 19, 2025	0
Turner	10.8	12.13 ft, Dec 19, 2025	1
Turner Road near Salem	12.3	14.10 ft, Jan 19, 2012	1
Mehama	11.0	17.50 ft, Nov 20, 1921	6
Salem Hospital	11.2	13.10 ft, Jan 19, 2012	1
Aurora	22.0	30.72 ft, Feb 8, 1996	5
Salem	28.0	47.00 ft, Dec 4, 1861	7

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NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BUMO3, 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.