Goose Creek at Old Westport Rd near St Matthews, 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 03292474 sits on Goose Creek and reads everything draining 6.0 square miles of the Silver-Little Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 545 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1997, 30 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 Goose Creek at Hwy 22 at Spring Valley, KY at 8.2 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 73% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ohio River at Water Tower at Louisville, KY, Ohio River at Louisville, KY and Ohio River below Riverview Pk near Louisville, KY.

Normal flows here

Goose Creek runs a median of 4.3 cfs at this gauge across 30 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 9.6 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 800 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2005.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1997 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 6.5 feet, in September 2006.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge LYDK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.