South Fork Beargrass Creek at E Oak St at 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 03292550 sits on the South Fork Beargrass Creek and reads everything draining 23 square miles of the Silver-Little Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 430 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 17 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is South Fork Beargrass Creek at Louisville, KY, reading 17 square miles. This gauge adds the 5.4 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Beargrass Creek at River Road at Louisville, KY at 60 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 38% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ohio River at Louisville, KY and Ohio River below Riverview Pk near Louisville, KY.

Normal flows here

The South Fork Beargrass Creek runs a median of 12 cfs at this gauge across 17 years of record. May is the fullest month at a median 22 cfs, and September the leanest at 4.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,500 cfs in 2006, and the lowest is 0.5 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1998 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.