Bacon Creek near Priceville, KY Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 03310400 sits on Bacon Creek and reads everything draining 85 square miles of the Upper Green basin. Only 54 square miles of that contributes flow in a normal year; the rest is closed basin that does not drain to the river. Its datum sits 580 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2011, 15 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Nolin River at Kyrock, KY at 703 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 12% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Green River at Hwy 259 at Brownsville, KY.

Normal flows here

Bacon Creek runs a median of 36 cfs at this gauge across 15 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 74 cfs, and October the leanest at 13 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,810 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 6.0 cfs in 2013.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2011 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 21.8 feet, in November 1957.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PCVK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.