Gulf Coast Gauges

Bassett Creek at US Highway 43 near Thomasville water level

USGS gauge 02470072 · Clarke County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge BASA1

2.92 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 2018 (USGS)
15.27 ft (April 14, 2018)
Usual range
2.90 to 3.76 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Clarke County 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

2.9 3.3 3.8 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 289.83 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 289.83 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

2.9 3.5 4.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1996

In 9 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2018), the highest peak was 15.27 ft on April 14, 2018. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.80 ft on October 11, 2026.

3 6 10 13 16 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 1996: 10.33 ft on August 30, 1996 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1997: 8.51 ft on June 21, 1997 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1998: 10.00 ft on March 8, 1998 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 9.73 ft on January 30, 1999 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2000: 5.14 ft on April 4, 2000 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2001: 8.95 ft on March 12, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 7.53 ft on December 14, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2003: 9.97 ft on December 24, 2002 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2004: 10.48 ft on September 16, 2004 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 11.03 ft on July 11, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2006: 8.29 ft on May 11, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2007: 7.77 ft on December 31, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2008: 7.77 ft on December 31, 2007 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2009: 10.55 ft on March 27, 2009 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2010: 9.95 ft on February 5, 2010 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2011: 9.79 ft on March 9, 2011 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2012: 7.83 ft on February 19, 2012 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2013: 10.30 ft on February 11, 2013 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2014: 8.80 ft on April 6, 2014 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2015: 10.20 ft on April 17, 2015 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2016: 10.80 ft on February 24, 2016 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2017: 14.26 ft on June 23, 2017 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2018: 15.27 ft on April 14, 2018 Water year 2019: 15.02 ft on January 23, 2019 Water year 2020: 13.13 ft on March 4, 2020 Water year 2021: 14.29 ft on April 24, 2021 Water year 2022: 13.62 ft on February 3, 2022 Water year 2023: 13.94 ft on March 27, 2023 Water year 2024: 13.39 ft on March 9, 2024 Water year 2025: 13.85 ft on April 6, 2025 Water year 2026: 12.20 ft on January 10, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 3.80 ft on October 11, 2026 2018 2021

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 (22 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
April 15, 201815.27 ft—
January 24, 201915.02 ft—
December 28, 201814.86 ft—
February 24, 201614.79 ft—
February 24, 202114.29 ft—
June 23, 201714.26 ft—
March 27, 202313.94 ft—
February 4, 202213.62 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

bassett-creek-at-us-highway-43-near-thomasville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,031 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. This site is not affiliated with either agency.