Town Branch at Yarnallton Road at Yarnallton, 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 03289200 sits on Town Branch and reads everything draining 30 square miles of the Lower Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 822 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1998, 28 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 Elkhorn Creek near Midway, KY at 105 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 29% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Elkhorn Creek near Frankfort, KY.

Normal flows here

Town Branch runs a median of 61 cfs at this gauge across 28 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 87 cfs, and September the leanest at 38 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,860 cfs in 2015, and the lowest is 6.2 cfs in 2014.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1998 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 11.8 feet, in September 2006.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge YNTK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.