Cedar Creek at Thixton Road near Louisville, 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 03298250 sits on Cedar Creek and reads everything draining 11 square miles of the Salt basin. Its datum sits 549 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2000, 24 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 Floyds Fork near Shepherdsville, KY at 283 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Salt River at Shepherdsville, KY and Salt River at Main Range Rd near West Point, KY.

Normal flows here

Cedar Creek runs a median of 12 cfs at this gauge across 24 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 23 cfs, and September the leanest at 7.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,340 cfs in 2015, and the lowest is 0.8 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2000 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.