Cedar Creek at Hwy 1442 near Shepherdsville, 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 03297800 sits on Cedar Creek and reads everything draining 12 square miles of the Salt basin. Its datum sits 422 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 23 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 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Salt River at Main Range Rd near West Point, KY.

Normal flows here

Cedar Creek runs a median of 5.5 cfs at this gauge across 23 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 14 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,550 cfs in 2008, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2005.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.