Beaver Creek near Monticello, 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 03413200 sits on Beaver Creek and reads everything draining 43 square miles of the Upper Cumberland-Lake Cumberland basin. Its datum sits 805 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1990 to 2024, 33 years in all.

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 Lake Cumberland near Jamestown, KY at 5,789 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Long Bottom near Rowena, KY.

Normal flows here

Beaver Creek runs a median of 14 cfs at this gauge across 33 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 67 cfs, and September the leanest at 3.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,200 cfs in 2003, and the lowest is 0.7 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1990 to 2024. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 10.1 feet, in September 2004.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MTCK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Wolf Creek Dam is 15 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Wolf Creek Dam 15 miles