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Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Beaver Creek near Hulen in OK, United States, built from official government gauge data.
Beaver Creek near Hulen is a gauged river in the Northern Beaver watershed, Oklahoma.
At this station, the upstream area is 218 sq mi (565 km2), so the gauge reflects runoff from a fairly compact catchment above the site. For people watching a creek crossing, a pasture edge, or a small intake, that matters: water can move quickly after a storm, but the level can also drop back in a dry spell.
The station has 10 years of record, which is enough to show a workable range without pretending to tell the whole long-term story. The record high is 25.56 ft (7.79 m) in April 2025, and the record low is 5.67 ft (1.73 m) in September 2024. Those two marks show that this reach has already moved through a wide span in a short record.
The typical high-water month is May, at 8.13 ft (2.48 m). The typical low-water month is September, at 7.23 ft (2.2 m). That seasonal swing is modest on paper, but on a creek it still means changing bank exposure, changing access, and different conditions for pumps, bank work, and fishing spots.
The typical annual swing is 10.8 in (27.5 cm). That is the kind of change that can be easy to miss day to day, yet still matter over a season for anyone crossing, launching, or keeping an eye on shallow margins.
This is southern-plains hydrology: spring is the primary storm season, and rapid rises can follow convective storms. Long dry recessions also fit that pattern, so the reach can change fast and then settle back for stretches.
The hero number on this page is most useful when set beside the median for the same calendar day across the station record. That comparison shows whether Beaver Creek is running above or below its usual level for this date, which is more informative than raw elevation alone.
A single stage reading can look ordinary or alarming until you place it against that day’s median and the station’s 10-year history. For this gauge, that is the right way to judge what the water is doing now.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey.
Readings come from official government gauges and are rolled into daily records: the daily mean, high and low for every day on record. Each calendar day gets its own baseline from the full history, so the level you see is compared against what this specific date usually looks like rather than an annual average.
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