Gulf Coast Gauges

Amite River near Darlington water level

USGS gauge 07377000 · St. Helena Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge DARL1

-1.34 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
19.3 ft
NWS action stage
16.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
18.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
21.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
23.0 ft
Highest since 1965 (USGS)
22.54 ft (August 12, 2016)
Usual range
-1.34 to -1.15 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Helena Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

-1.4 -1.1 -0.9 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above this gauge's own zero point, which sits at 145.36 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 145.36 ft to get the water surface elevation.

The flood stages are the National Weather Service's, on the same scale as the gage height; they are the NWS's references for this location, not estimates made here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

-1.4 -1.0 -0.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1950

In 61 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1965), the highest peak was 22.54 ft on August 12, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is -0.95 ft on October 5, 2026.

-3 4 11 18 25 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 23 ft moderate 21 ft minor 18 ft action 16 ft Water year 1950: 17.21 ft on January 7, 1950 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1951: 16.05 ft on March 30, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1952: 8.23 ft on December 21, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 14.64 ft on May 20, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 8.58 ft on January 16, 1954 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 18.18 ft on April 13, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 14.85 ft on March 12, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 14.82 ft on June 29, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 15.06 ft on September 23, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 11.84 ft on February 3, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 12.91 ft on December 19, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 16.70 ft on March 18, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 14.07 ft on April 28, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 9.93 ft on January 21, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 19.40 ft on March 3, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 19.37 ft on October 5, 1964 Water year 1967: 18.97 ft on April 15, 1967 Water year 1968: 14.13 ft on December 17, 1967 Water year 1969: 13.82 ft on April 14, 1969 Water year 1970: 9.26 ft on March 21, 1970 Water year 1971: 14.44 ft on September 18, 1971 Water year 1972: 19.43 ft on December 7, 1971 Water year 1973: 20.19 ft on March 25, 1973 Water year 1974: 17.13 ft on April 14, 1974 Water year 1975: 18.98 ft on June 9, 1975 Water year 1976: 12.35 ft on April 1, 1976 Water year 1977: 21.76 ft on April 22, 1977 Water year 1978: 18.09 ft on November 30, 1977 Water year 1979: 19.25 ft on April 23, 1979 Water year 1980: 19.59 ft on March 28, 1980 Water year 1981: 12.85 ft on December 11, 1980 Water year 1982: 16.03 ft on February 17, 1982 Water year 1983: 20.29 ft on April 7, 1983 Water year 1984: 14.56 ft on February 14, 1984 Water year 1985: 12.73 ft on February 27, 1985 Water year 1986: 15.92 ft on October 30, 1985 Water year 1987: 16.68 ft on March 1, 1987 Water year 1988: 16.69 ft on April 3, 1988 Water year 1989: 15.66 ft on May 20, 1989 Water year 1990: 22.05 ft on January 25, 1990 Water year 1991: 16.10 ft on May 1, 1991 Water year 1992: 17.46 ft on March 6, 1992 Water year 1993: 16.08 ft on January 21, 1993 Water year 1994: 20.17 ft on January 28, 1994 Water year 1995: 16.95 ft on April 12, 1995 Water year 1996: 15.21 ft on December 19, 1995 Water year 1997: 18.80 ft on April 28, 1997 Water year 1998: 17.58 ft on January 8, 1998 Water year 1999: 17.09 ft on March 14, 1999 Water year 2000: 6.84 ft on April 4, 2000 Water year 2001: 17.79 ft on June 8, 2001 Water year 2002: 12.67 ft on September 28, 2002 Water year 2003: 18.66 ft on February 23, 2003 Water year 2004: 15.40 ft on February 13, 2004 Water year 2005: 9.28 ft on February 2, 2005 Water year 2006: 5.51 ft on February 3, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.69 ft on October 28, 2006 Water year 2008: 17.51 ft on September 3, 2008 Water year 2009: 16.50 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 9.55 ft on October 16, 2009 Water year 2011: 12.25 ft on March 10, 2011 Water year 2012: 13.75 ft on September 1, 2012 Water year 2013: 16.17 ft on February 13, 2013 Water year 2014: 14.57 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2015: 11.60 ft on March 3, 2015 Water year 2016: 22.54 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 10.25 ft on April 4, 2017 Water year 2018: 13.04 ft on October 22, 2017 Water year 2019: 10.50 ft on May 12, 2019 Water year 2020: 5.63 ft on February 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 12.31 ft on April 25, 2021 Water year 2022: 8.97 ft on March 24, 2022 Water year 2023: 11.38 ft on January 31, 2023 Water year 2024: 10.56 ft on January 26, 2024 Water year 2025: 11.22 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 11.39 ft on March 9, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: -0.95 ft on October 5, 2026 2016 1990 1977

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages. Grey hollow dots (15 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 12, 201622.54 ft4.5 ft
January 25, 199022.05 ft4.1 ft
April 21, 197721.76 ft3.8 ft
April 13, 195521.17 ft3.2 ft
April 7, 198320.29 ft2.3 ft
January 7, 195020.20 ft2.2 ft
March 25, 197320.19 ft2.2 ft
January 28, 199420.17 ft2.2 ft

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

amite-river-near-darlington.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,046 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey; flood stages and historic crests from the NWS National Water Prediction Service. This site is not affiliated with either agency.