USGS Tar River Basin Flood-Inundation Mapping

Gage Height (in feet)	Flood-Inundation Map	Historical Crests (Gage Height) 18.98 ft on 09/23/2003 15.15 ft on 08/20/2004 12.91 ft on 01/18/2005 View Detail Maps Northwest Southeast Southwest Regional Map Additional Links NWIS Site Home Page Real-time Gage height Data
12.2	Gage Height: 12.2 feet above gage datum Water-Surface Elevation at Gage: 42.2 feet above NAVD88 Scroll over gage height numbers to see change in flood inundation on the map (requires Javascript). Click on gage height numbers to view flood-inundation map download options. Inundation maps at this site are not in 1 foot increments because water levels at this site are controlled by water levels at Tar River at Tarboro (02083500). A 1-foot water level rise at Tar River at Tarboro does not necessarily result in a 1-foot rise at this site.
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Map Explanation

Base map is hill shade derived from LIDAR. Roads are coverages obtained from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Orthophotography is from USDA 2005 National Agriculture Imagery Program.

(Green square) = station location.

Gage Height (GH) and Water-Surface Elevation are rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot.

1:24,000 scale shows inundated area near streamgage.

1:12,000 scale shows greater detail, including road names.

Projection	Lambert Conformal Conic (NC State Plane)
Horizontal Datum	North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83)
Vertical Datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88)

0208331077 - Fishing Creek at NC 97 near Leggett

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