Beech Fork at Bardstown, 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 03301000 sits on the Beech Fork and reads everything draining 669 square miles of the Rolling Fork basin. Its datum sits 439 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 62 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Beech Fork at Maud, KY, reading 436 square miles. This gauge adds the 233 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Rolling Fork near Boston, KY at 1,299 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 52% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Rolling Fork near Lebanon Junction, KY.

Normal flows here

The Beech Fork runs a median of 196 cfs at this gauge across 62 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 842 cfs, and October the leanest at 17 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 42,000 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1957.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 47.1 feet, in May 2010.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BTDK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.