Clear Fork near Robbins, 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 03409500 sits on the Clear Fork and reads everything draining 272 square miles of the South Fork Cumberland basin. Its datum sits 1,081 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1931, 85 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 South Fork Cumberland River at Leatherwood Ford, TN at 806 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 34% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Clear Fork runs a median of 140 cfs at this gauge across 85 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 578 cfs, and September the leanest at 20 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 34,700 cfs in 2021, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 1932.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1931 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.