Floyd River at James, IA
Plymouth County, Iowa · USGS 06600500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Floyd River at its USGS monitoring location in Plymouth County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 57 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.
Above historical median · Rising
Streamflow is currently 250 ft³/s, 4.0× the historical median for this date. Flow has risen 13 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 63 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →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 | 90.9 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 89.7 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 89.3 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 90.2 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 87.7 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 147 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 149 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 120 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 103 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 102 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 179 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 202 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 233 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 292 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 318 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 264 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 209 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 211 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 211 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 194 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 185 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 188 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 190 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 217 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 226 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 223 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 230 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 244 CFS |
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