Kaskaskia River at Vandalia, IL
Fayette County, Illinois · USGS 05592500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Kaskaskia River at its USGS monitoring location in Fayette County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 31 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 79 ft³/s, 17% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 16 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 95 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 | 584 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 443 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 367 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 345 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 332 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 322 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 294 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 283 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 291 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 267 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 211 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 197 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 177 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 156 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 145 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 129 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 119 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 110 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 104 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 93.6 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 81.2 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 89.1 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 82.4 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 122 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 182 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 119 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 102 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 96.3 CFS |
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