About this river
Trenkle Slough is a 4.4 mile river near Kingfisher Kayaking in Illinois. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Salt Creek near Farmer City, IL (site 05578100). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
2016 to 2026
Trenkle Slough typically runs highest in May, at a median 103 cfs, and lowest in September, at 5.3 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 4,040 cfs, in 2021.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49 | 13 to 126 | |
| February | 52 | 14 to 130 | |
| March | 87 | 38 to 151 | |
| April | 99 | 71 to 155 | |
| May | 103 | 62 to 172 | |
| June | 61 | 48 to 122 | |
| July | 25 | 14 to 46 | |
| August | 8.9 | 5.7 to 24 | |
| September | 5.3 | 3.9 to 10 | |
| October | 7.4 | 4.2 to 30 | |
| November | 20 | 8.3 to 43 | |
| December | 39 | 9.6 to 99 |
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 11 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Salt Creek near Farmer City, IL (site 05578100). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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