Duck River at Mile 156 near Pottsville, 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 03599419 sits on the Duck River and reads everything draining 1,029 square miles of the Upper Duck basin. Its datum sits 568 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2012, 14 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Duck River above Milltown, TN, reading 916 square miles. This gauge adds the 113 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Duck River at Columbia, TN at 1,208 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 85% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Duck River runs a median of 648 cfs at this gauge across 14 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 2,150 cfs, and September the leanest at 242 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 37,600 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 114 cfs in 2025.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2012 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.