Maury River at Rockbridge Baths, VA 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 02021500 sits on the Maury River and reads everything draining 329 square miles of the Maury basin. Its datum sits 1,100 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1929, 98 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Calfpasture River above Mill Creek at Goshen, VA, reading 141 square miles. This gauge adds the 188 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Maury River near Buena Vista, VA at 647 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 51% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to James River at Bedford Dam near Major, VA and James River at Blue Ridge Pkwy near Big Island, VA.

Normal flows here

The Maury River runs a median of 154 cfs at this gauge across 98 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 488 cfs, and September the leanest at 40 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 41,500 cfs in 1986, and the lowest is 7.1 cfs in 1966.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1929 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.