South Fork Beargrass Creek 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 03292500 sits on the South Fork Beargrass Creek and reads everything draining 17 square miles of the Silver-Little Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 445 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 63 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 South Fork Beargrass Creek at E Oak St at Louisville, KY at 23 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 76% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Beargrass Creek at River Road at Louisville, KY, 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 7.7 cfs at this gauge across 63 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 19 cfs, and October the leanest at 2.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,020 cfs in 2006, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1959.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 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 18.1 feet, in March 1943.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge ABPK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.