Licking River at Hwy 60 at Farmers, 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 03249505 sits on the Licking River and reads everything draining 831 square miles of the Licking basin. Its datum sits 646 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 2004 to 2017, 7 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Licking River at Farmers, KY, reading 827 square miles.

Normal flows here

The Licking River runs a median of 712 cfs at this gauge across 7 years of record. May is the fullest month at a median 1,840 cfs, and August the leanest at 97 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,200 cfs in 2015, and the lowest is 37 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2004 to 2017. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.