Gulf Coast Gauges

Choctaw Bayou at Highway 404 west of White Castle water level

USGS gauge 07381452 · Iberville Parish · Baton Rouge

9.06 ft

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

Highest since 2022 (USGS)
11.15 ft (January 5, 2023)
Usual range
8.88 to 9.53 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Iberville 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

8.7 9.1 9.5 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 -7.84 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -7.84 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

8.7 9.2 9.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2022

In 5 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2022), the highest peak was 11.15 ft on January 5, 2023. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 9.71 ft on October 4, 2026.

10 10 10 11 11 2025 Water year 2022: 10.55 ft on May 23, 2022 Water year 2023: 11.15 ft on January 5, 2023 Water year 2024: 10.79 ft on January 28, 2024 Water year 2025: 10.60 ft on May 10, 2025 Water year 2026: 11.14 ft on May 13, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 9.71 ft on October 4, 2026 2023 2026 2024

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.

Download the readings

choctaw-bayou-at-highway-404-west-of-white-castle.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,048 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.