Bledsoe Creek near Bethpage, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03425622 sits on Bledsoe Creek and reads everything draining 56 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake basin. Its datum sits 481 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2020, 6 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 Cumberland River at Old Hickory Dam (Tw), TN at 11,673 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Edenwold, TN.

Normal flows here

Bledsoe Creek runs a median of 28 cfs at this gauge across 6 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 120 cfs, and October the leanest at 3.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,560 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2023.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2020 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Old Hickory Dam is 21 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Old Hickory Dam 21 miles
• Cordell Hull Dam 24 miles