About this river
Beech Fork is a 40.7 mile river near Taylorsville Lake Marina in Kentucky. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Beech Fork at Bardstown, KY (site 03301000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1940 to 2025
Beech Fork typically runs highest in March, at a median 842 cfs, and lowest in October, at 17 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 42,000 cfs, in 2025.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 660 | 280 to 1,460 | |
| February | 839 | 430 to 1,840 | |
| March | 842 | 443 to 1,960 | |
| April | 603 | 292 to 1,215 | |
| May | 353 | 154 to 811 | |
| June | 131 | 48 to 411 | |
| July | 103 | 32 to 354 | |
| August | 54 | 14 to 164 | |
| September | 20 | 4.4 to 95 | |
| October | 17 | 3.6 to 102 | |
| November | 62 | 9.1 to 410 | |
| December | 399 | 120 to 1,100 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 62 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Beech Fork at Bardstown, KY (site 03301000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
Boat access nearby
2 mapped launches sit in the mapped area of Beech Fork, all of them public access. Ramp data comes from the USGS national boat-ramp inventory.
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