Middle Raccoon River near Bayard, IA
Guthrie County, Iowa · USGS 05483450
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Middle Raccoon River at its USGS monitoring location in Guthrie County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 39 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 667 ft³/s, 12.6× the historical median for this date. Flow has risen 324 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 53 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 | 29.3 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 29.2 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 29.2 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 31.3 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 29.9 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 26.7 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 26.5 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 27.3 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 27.5 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 33.3 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 224 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 298 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 382 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 207 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 128 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 95.1 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 79.2 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 76.2 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 136 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 250 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 276 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 261 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 203 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 172 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 154 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 143 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 133 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 126 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 182 CFS |
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