Clear Fork at Saxton, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 03403910 sits on the Clear Fork and reads everything draining 331 square miles of the Upper Cumberland basin. Its datum sits 921 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1968, 46 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 Williamsburg, KY at 1,607 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 21% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Cumberland Falls, KY.

Normal flows here

The Clear Fork runs a median of 228 cfs at this gauge across 46 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 649 cfs, and October the leanest at 57 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 19,400 cfs in 1973, and the lowest is 3.3 cfs in 1988.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1968 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.