North Elkhorn Creek at Georgetown, 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 03288100 sits on North Elkhorn Creek and reads everything draining 147 square miles of the Lower Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 784 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1993, 33 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is N Elkhorn Creek at Bryan Station Rd at Montrose, KY, reading 22 square miles. This gauge adds the 126 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Elkhorn Creek near Frankfort, KY at 473 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 31% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

North Elkhorn Creek runs a median of 93 cfs at this gauge across 33 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 233 cfs, and September the leanest at 13 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 11,000 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 1.0 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1993 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 19 feet, in March 1997.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge GEOK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.