Gulf Coast Gauges

Chickasaw Creek near Kushla water level

USGS gauge 02471001 · Mobile County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge CHKA1

3.05 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT · 2 hours ago

Highest since 1969 (USGS)
22.36 ft (September 29, 1998)
Usual range
3.09 to 5.02 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Mobile 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

3.0 4.0 5.0 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 3.42 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 3.42 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

3.0 4.5 6.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1952

In 57 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1969), the highest peak was 22.36 ft on September 29, 1998. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 6.02 ft on October 5, 2026.

4 10 16 21 27 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1952: 10.10 ft on May 20, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 11.96 ft on April 26, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 7.38 ft on December 13, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 25.40 ft on April 13, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 14.40 ft on March 12, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 15.90 ft on December 24, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 12.70 ft on November 15, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 20.63 ft on June 2, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 15.36 ft on May 7, 1960 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 15.90 ft on June 20, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 19.97 ft on November 15, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 9.30 ft on January 20, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 14.74 ft on April 27, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 18.80 ft on January 23, 1965 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 12.38 ft on October 1, 1965 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 14.35 ft on January 2, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 14.70 ft on October 31, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 17.58 ft on August 18, 1969 Water year 1970: 15.91 ft on June 3, 1970 Water year 1971: 15.98 ft on December 17, 1970 Water year 1972: 16.06 ft on May 9, 1972 Water year 1973: 15.05 ft on September 14, 1973 Water year 1974: 16.42 ft on September 8, 1974 Water year 1975: 17.79 ft on August 1, 1975 Water year 1976: 16.55 ft on October 17, 1975 Water year 1977: 14.96 ft on April 1, 1977 Water year 1978: 15.96 ft on January 26, 1978 Water year 1979: 17.66 ft on March 4, 1979 Water year 1980: 19.70 ft on April 13, 1980 Water year 1981: 16.99 ft on February 11, 1981 Water year 1982: 13.31 ft on February 4, 1982 Water year 1983: 20.38 ft on April 7, 1983 Water year 1984: 16.18 ft on May 23, 1984 Water year 1985: 16.15 ft on September 24, 1985 Water year 1986: 15.27 ft on February 6, 1986 Water year 1987: 13.29 ft on March 19, 1987 Water year 1988: 15.42 ft on September 17, 1988 Water year 1989: 13.36 ft on June 9, 1989 Water year 1990: 20.29 ft on March 16, 1990 Water year 1991: 18.88 ft on May 11, 1991 Water year 1992: 15.53 ft on February 18, 1992 Water year 1993: 17.55 ft on May 26, 1993 Water year 1994: 10.92 ft on June 25, 1994 Water year 1995: 17.10 ft on August 5, 1995 Water year 1996: 19.20 ft on December 19, 1995 Water year 1997: 16.11 ft on July 20, 1997 Water year 1998: 22.36 ft on September 29, 1998 Water year 2000: 14.43 ft on October 8, 1999 Water year 2001: 15.38 ft on March 4, 2001 Water year 2002: 18.16 ft on September 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 15.85 ft on July 1, 2003 Water year 2004: 17.15 ft on May 1, 2004 Water year 2005: 17.60 ft on April 1, 2005 Water year 2006: 8.40 ft on February 26, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.59 ft on January 1, 2007 Water year 2008: 18.80 ft on September 2, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.34 ft on March 28, 2009 Water year 2010: 16.65 ft on May 4, 2010 Water year 2011: 11.48 ft on July 17, 2011 Water year 2012: 15.90 ft on August 31, 2012 Water year 2013: 16.70 ft on February 26, 2013 Water year 2014: 17.88 ft on April 30, 2014 Water year 2015: 19.09 ft on May 17, 2015 Water year 2016: 13.82 ft on October 27, 2015 Water year 2017: 17.24 ft on January 2, 2017 Water year 2018: 15.44 ft on October 9, 2017 Water year 2019: 12.51 ft on April 6, 2019 Water year 2020: 17.72 ft on October 31, 2019 Water year 2021: 18.67 ft on August 31, 2021 Water year 2022: 13.64 ft on February 5, 2022 Water year 2023: 13.62 ft on April 14, 2023 Water year 2024: 15.37 ft on April 11, 2024 Water year 2025: 15.33 ft on December 11, 2024 Water year 2026: 18.09 ft on June 19, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 6.02 ft on October 5, 2026 1998 1983 1990

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 (17 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 13, 195525.40 ft—
September 29, 199822.36 ft—
June 2, 195920.63 ft—
April 7, 198320.38 ft—
March 16, 199020.29 ft—
November 15, 196119.97 ft—
April 16, 198019.70 ft—
December 19, 199519.20 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

chickasaw-creek-near-kushla.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 3,862 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.