Brashears Creek at Taylorsville, 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 03295890 sits on Brashears Creek and reads everything draining 259 square miles of the Salt basin. Its datum sits 466 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1981, 44 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 Salt River at Shepherdsville, KY at 1,197 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 22% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Brashears Creek runs a median of 130 cfs at this gauge across 44 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 371 cfs, and September the leanest at 7.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 39,600 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1988.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1981 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 31.5 feet, in March 1997.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BRCK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.