Elkhart River at Goshen, IN
Elkhart County, Indiana · USGS 04100500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Elkhart River at its USGS monitoring location in Elkhart County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 43 minutes ago
Observed
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 130 ft³/s, 32% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 19 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 193 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 26 · dates shown in UTC · 30 observations
Look at the data (30 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 156 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 134 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 128 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 131 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 123 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 109 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 92.2 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 78.8 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 86 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 171 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 148 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 118 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 104 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 95.9 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 84.7 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 74.7 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 67.2 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 59.7 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 54.9 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 105 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 156 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 190 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 150 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 274 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 635 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 454 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 255 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 194 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 162 CFS |
| Sep 26, 2026, 12:00 AM | 141 CFS |
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