Clark Fork at Deer Lodge MT
Powell County, Montana · USGS 12324200
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What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Clark Fork at its USGS monitoring location in Powell County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 1 hour ago
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How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Below historical median · Falling
Streamflow is currently 132 ft³/s, 17% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 7 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 159 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Current water conditions
Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 94.1 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 94.6 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.2 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 94 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 85.9 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 91.3 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 111 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 126 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 139 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 152 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 143 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 131 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 124 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 117 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 113 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 102 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.5 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 110 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 109 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 110 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 149 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 229 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 191 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 169 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 161 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 156 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 145 CFS |
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