Gulf Coast Gauges

Big Escambia Creek at Sardine Br near Stanley Crossroad water level

USGS gauge 02374950 · Escambia County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge STNA1

0.86 ft

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

Below NWS minor flood stage
11.1 ft
NWS action stage
5.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
12.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
15.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
16.0 ft
Highest since 2001 (USGS)
18.74 ft (June 20, 2026)
Usual range
0.81 to 1.40 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Escambia 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

0.8 1.1 1.4 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. It is not a water depth. USGS publishes no datum elevation for this gauge, so it can't be converted to an elevation here.

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

0.8 1.3 1.8 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2001

In 26 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2001), the highest peak was 18.74 ft on June 20, 2026. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 1.75 ft on October 5, 2026.

0 5 10 15 20 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 major 16 ft moderate 15 ft minor 12 ft action 5 ft Water year 2001: 16.63 ft on March 5, 2001 Water year 2002: 11.27 ft on September 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 9.99 ft on July 1, 2003 Water year 2004: 14.30 ft on September 18, 2004 Water year 2005: 9.83 ft on July 12, 2005 Water year 2006: 5.22 ft on May 11, 2006 Water year 2007: 7.69 ft on April 15, 2007 Water year 2008: 8.70 ft on August 27, 2008 Water year 2009: 9.18 ft on April 14, 2009 Water year 2010: 18.02 ft on December 15, 2009 Water year 2011: 7.51 ft on March 9, 2011 Water year 2012: 8.05 ft on September 6, 2012 Water year 2013: 8.47 ft on February 27, 2013 Water year 2014: 14.50 ft on May 15, 2014 Water year 2015: 4.85 ft on April 19, 2015 Water year 2016: 16.15 ft on December 25, 2015 Water year 2017: 16.09 ft on January 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 9.87 ft on September 5, 2018 Water year 2019: 6.42 ft on January 5, 2019 Water year 2020: 10.90 ft on September 16, 2020 Water year 2021: 9.07 ft on July 3, 2021 Water year 2022: 16.77 ft on February 5, 2022 Water year 2023: 9.68 ft on June 17, 2023 Water year 2024: 6.33 ft on April 12, 2024 Water year 2025: 13.50 ft on June 10, 2025 Water year 2026: 18.74 ft on June 20, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 1.75 ft on October 5, 2026 2026 2010 2022

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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
June 20, 202618.74 ft6.7 ft
December 15, 200918.02 ft6.0 ft
February 5, 202216.77 ft4.8 ft
March 5, 200116.63 ft4.6 ft
December 25, 201516.15 ft4.1 ft
January 3, 201716.09 ft4.1 ft
May 15, 201414.50 ft2.5 ft
September 18, 200414.30 ft2.3 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

big-escambia-creek-at-sardine-br-near-stanley-crossroad.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 2,024 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.