Fourmile Creek at Poplar Ridge Rd near Alexandria,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 03238772 sits on Fourmile Creek and reads everything draining 3.1 square miles of the Ohio Brush-Whiteoak basin. Its datum sits 534 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2002, 23 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 Fourmile Creek at Grays Crossing at Silver Grove, KY at 9.8 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 32% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Fourmile Creek at Hwy 8 at Silver Grove, KY.

Normal flows here

Fourmile Creek runs a median of 1.3 cfs at this gauge across 23 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 3.3 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 234 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.