Muskingum River at Dresden
Highest listed crest 20.70 ftFlood stage 20.0 ft1 crests since 2020
The Muskingum River at Dresden crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2020 to 2020. The highest, 20.70 ft on March 21, 2020, was minor flooding, 0.70 feet above flood stage. 3 other gauges on the Muskingum River crested above flood stage within a week of it.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 20.70 ft
- March 21, 2020; 38,552 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 20.0 ft
- Major flooding from 26.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- March 21, 2020
- 20.70 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Flood stage (minor) | 20.0 | 1 | Mar 21, 2020 |
| Moderate flood stage | 23.0 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 26.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
1 crests from 2020 to 2020. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
Highest crests
| 1 | Mar 21, 2020 | 20.70 | +0.70 | Minor |
The worst floods along the Muskingum River
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Muskingum River that crested above flood stage within a week.
March 21, 2020: 20.70 ft here, minor flooding
- BeverlyOH · Mar 21, 2020 · 31.17 ft · Minor
- CoshoctonOH · Mar 20, 2020 · 17.69 ft · Minor
- McConnelsvilleOH · Mar 21, 2020 · 11.99 ft · Minor
Gauges on the Muskingum River
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| Coshocton | OH | 19.40 ft, Jan 7, 2005 | 0 |
| Dresden this gauge | OH | 20.70 ft, Mar 21, 2020 | 0 |
| McConnelsville | OH | 14.38 ft, Jan 23, 1959 | 1 |
| Beverly | OH | 34.76 ft, Apr 3, 2024 | 0 |
Muskingum County: every hazard · River floods across the country · Ohio
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge DREO1, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.