Sturgeon Creek at Cressmont, 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 03282040 sits on Sturgeon Creek and reads everything draining 77 square miles of the Upper Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 704 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1993, 32 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 Kentucky River at Lock 13 near Willow Shoals, KY at 2,784 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Kentucky River at Lock 12 near Irvine, KY.

Normal flows here

Sturgeon Creek runs a median of 30 cfs at this gauge across 32 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 114 cfs, and September the leanest at 3.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,530 cfs in 2004, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1999.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1993 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 20.3 feet, in March 2021.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge CRMK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.