TidalMapPotomac River at Harpers Ferry, WV Water Level Today
NWS river forecast
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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 01620000 sits on the Potomac River and reads everything draining 6,290 square miles of the Conococheague-Opequon basin. Its datum sits 245 feet above sea level NAVD88.
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 Potomac River at Burkittsville Rd at Brunswick, MD at 9,453 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 67% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Potomac River at Point of Rocks, MD and Potomac River at Edwards Ferry near Poolesville,md.
Nearby river gauges
- Piney Run near Lovettsville, VA
- Potomac River at Burkittsville Rd at Brunswick, MD
- Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, MD
- North Fork Catoctin Creek at Rt 681 near Waterford, VA
- Catoctin Creek at Taylorstown, VA
- South Fork Catoctin Creek at Rt 698 near Waterford, VA
- Potomac River at Point of Rocks, MD
- Marsh Run at Grimes, MD
- Catoctin Creek near Middletown, MD
- Limestone Branch near Leesburg, VA
- North Fork Goose Creek at Rt 729 near Lincoln, VA
- Beaverdam Creek at Rt 734 near Mountville, VA
Live streamflow and gage height: USGS gauge 01620000. Percentile context computed against the gauge's period of record. Not for navigation.
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