Duck River near Shady Grove, 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 03601600 sits on the Duck River and reads everything draining 1,705 square miles of the Lower Duck basin. Its datum sits 484 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2015, 11 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Duck River at Columbia, TN, reading 1,208 square miles. This gauge adds the 497 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Duck River at Hwy 100 at Centerville, TN at 2,048 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 83% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Duck River runs a median of 1,145 cfs at this gauge across 11 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 3,600 cfs, and September the leanest at 364 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 50,200 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 178 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2015 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.