Little Sandy River below Grayson Dam near Leon, 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 03216350 sits on the Little Sandy River and reads everything draining 196 square miles of the Little Sandy basin. Its datum sits 499 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1969, 28 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Grayson Lake near Leon, KY sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. 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 Little Sandy River at Grayson, KY at 400 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 49% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Little Sandy River runs a median of 82 cfs at this gauge across 28 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 277 cfs, and July the leanest at 36 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,890 cfs in 1989, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1974.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1969 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.