Mill Creek Cutoff near Louisville, 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 03294550 sits on Mill Creek Cutoff and reads everything draining 24 square miles of the Silver-Little Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 414 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1988, 33 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 Ohio River below Riverview Pk near Louisville, KY at 91,193 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Mill Creek Cutoff runs a median of 1.4 cfs at this gauge across 33 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 3.0 cfs, and October the leanest at 1.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,000 cfs in 2011, and the lowest is -21.4 cfs in 2019.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1988 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 15.8 feet, in September 1992.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PRPK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.