Gulf Coast Gauges

Bogue Chitto River at Franklinton water level

USGS gauge 02491500 · Washington Parish · New Orleans and the Northshore · NWS gauge FRNL1

0.30 ft

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

Below NWS minor flood stage
11.7 ft
NWS action stage
10.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
12.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
16.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
21.0 ft
Highest since 1977 (USGS)
24.69 ft (April 7, 1983)
Usual range
0.32 to 0.56 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Washington 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

0.3 0.6 0.8 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 123.59 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 123.59 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

0.3 0.6 1.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1900

In 50 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1977), the highest peak was 24.69 ft on April 7, 1983. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 1.01 ft on October 5, 2026.

-1 7 14 22 30 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 21 ft moderate 16 ft minor 12 ft action 10 ft Water year 1900: 27.60 ft on April 15, 1900 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1922: 11.00 ft on March 2, 1922 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1923: 17.00 ft on April 6, 1923 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1924: 13.00 ft on December 12, 1923 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1925: 18.90 ft on January 18, 1925 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1926: 14.50 ft on January 6, 1926 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1927: 17.50 ft on February 14, 1927 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1928: 15.60 ft on June 5, 1928 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1929: 17.00 ft on February 17, 1929 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1930: 17.40 ft on November 15, 1929 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1931: 9.30 ft on November 17, 1930 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1932: 12.80 ft on January 26, 1932 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1933: 17.40 ft on March 1, 1933 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1934: 11.50 ft on March 5, 1934 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1935: 13.80 ft on March 8, 1935 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1936: 16.00 ft on February 6, 1936 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1937: 16.30 ft on January 21, 1937 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1938: 17.00 ft on April 9, 1938 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1939: 13.65 ft on June 4, 1939 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1940: 9.63 ft on July 11, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1941: 11.36 ft on December 17, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1942: 8.63 ft on January 3, 1942 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1943: 18.46 ft on March 21, 1943 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1944: 14.19 ft on March 30, 1944 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1945: 9.53 ft on April 29, 1945 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1946: 9.63 ft on March 17, 1946 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1947: 15.18 ft on April 2, 1947 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1948: 15.01 ft on March 6, 1948 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1949: 15.32 ft on May 2, 1949 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1950: 17.59 ft on January 8, 1950 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1951: 15.32 ft on March 31, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1952: 4.04 ft on April 14, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 17.29 ft on August 23, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 8.38 ft on December 10, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 18.26 ft on April 15, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 11.75 ft on February 5, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 9.38 ft on April 6, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 9.10 ft on November 15, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 9.05 ft on June 1, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 9.56 ft on May 7, 1960 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 18.37 ft on February 22, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 17.40 ft on April 28, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 6.80 ft on January 23, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 12.64 ft on March 3, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 15.50 ft on October 7, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 17.45 ft on February 13, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 11.00 ft on May 6, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 9.20 ft on December 18, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 12.70 ft on April 15, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 3.20 ft on March 23, 1970 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 18.00 ft on March 10, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 16.10 ft on December 9, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 17.60 ft on March 27, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 18.02 ft on April 15, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 17.05 ft on May 9, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 6.86 ft on April 3, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 17.75 ft on April 23, 1977 Water year 1978: 12.31 ft on May 10, 1978 Water year 1979: 16.71 ft on February 24, 1979 Water year 1980: 20.55 ft on March 30, 1980 Water year 1981: 7.12 ft on June 25, 1981 Water year 1982: 10.71 ft on February 18, 1982 Water year 1983: 24.69 ft on April 7, 1983 Water year 1984: 9.98 ft on December 28, 1983 Water year 1985: 13.23 ft on October 25, 1984 Water year 1986: 13.63 ft on October 31, 1985 Water year 1987: 17.36 ft on March 1, 1987 Water year 1988: 15.04 ft on March 26, 1988 Water year 1989: 14.81 ft on March 30, 1989 Water year 1990: 21.16 ft on January 26, 1990 Water year 1991: 14.39 ft on May 1, 1991 Water year 1992: 13.31 ft on February 16, 1992 Water year 1993: 19.00 ft on January 21, 1993 Water year 1994: 19.47 ft on January 29, 1994 Water year 1995: 12.29 ft on March 16, 1995 Water year 1996: 10.78 ft on December 19, 1995 Water year 1997: 18.07 ft on April 29, 1997 Water year 1998: 16.16 ft on January 8, 1998 Water year 1999: 16.50 ft on March 14, 1999 Water year 2000: 3.56 ft on April 5, 2000 Water year 2001: 17.83 ft on March 5, 2001 Water year 2002: 13.96 ft on September 27, 2002 Water year 2003: 18.38 ft on February 24, 2003 Water year 2004: 14.93 ft on February 8, 2004 Water year 2005: 11.24 ft on April 2, 2005 Water year 2006: 5.43 ft on March 23, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.40 ft on December 31, 2006 Water year 2008: 12.06 ft on September 5, 2008 Water year 2009: 19.21 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 14.55 ft on December 16, 2009 Water year 2011: 14.33 ft on March 11, 2011 Water year 2012: 22.13 ft on August 31, 2012 Water year 2013: 15.86 ft on February 13, 2013 Water year 2014: 15.71 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2015: 7.35 ft on January 5, 2015 Water year 2016: 24.27 ft on March 11, 2016 Water year 2017: 11.32 ft on April 5, 2017 Water year 2018: 10.43 ft on January 28, 2018 Water year 2019: 17.90 ft on December 28, 2018 Water year 2020: 12.99 ft on February 7, 2020 Water year 2021: 16.33 ft on June 7, 2021 Water year 2022: 11.58 ft on March 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 13.12 ft on February 18, 2023 Water year 2024: 11.59 ft on January 28, 2024 Water year 2025: 11.63 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 15.89 ft on January 12, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 1.01 ft on October 5, 2026 1983 2016

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 (56 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, 190029.60 ft17.6 ft
April 7, 198324.69 ft12.7 ft
March 11, 201624.27 ft12.3 ft
August 31, 201222.13 ft10.1 ft
January 26, 199021.16 ft9.2 ft
January 18, 192520.90 ft8.9 ft
August 12, 201620.65 ft8.6 ft
March 30, 198020.55 ft8.6 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

bogue-chitto-river-at-franklinton.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.