Sycamore Creek near Ashland City, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03431800 sits on Sycamore Creek and reads everything draining 97 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Sycamore basin. Its datum sits 412 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1962, 44 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 Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN at 14,159 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River below Cheatham Dam, TN.

Normal flows here

Sycamore Creek runs a median of 64 cfs at this gauge across 44 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 148 cfs, and September the leanest at 22 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,680 cfs in 1975, and the lowest is 1.5 cfs in 1993.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1962 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Sycamore Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 14 feet. NWS starts watching it at 10 feet. The highest crest on record is 18.3 feet, in May 2010.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge ACST1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Cheatham Dam is 9 miles from this gauge on the Cumberland system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Cheatham Dam 9 miles
• Old Hickory Dam 22 miles