Kaskaskia River at Carlyle, IL
Clinton County, Illinois · USGS 05593000
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What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Kaskaskia River at its USGS monitoring location in Clinton County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 17 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 · Steady
Streamflow is currently 113 ft³/s, 22% below the historical median for this date. Flow has been relatively steady over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 145 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 | 440 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 373 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 329 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 258 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 200 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 200 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 183 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 172 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 172 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 177 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 198 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 171 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 161 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 159 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 129 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 105 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 100 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 106 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 106 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 106 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 104 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 111 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 111 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 109 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 108 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 112 CFS |
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