Gulf Coast Gauges

Choctawhatchee River at Caryville water level

USGS gauge 02365500 · Holmes County · Panama City · NWS gauge CARF1

4.09 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
9.9 ft
NWS action stage
10.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
14.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
16.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
20.0 ft
Highest since 1928 (USGS)
27.10 ft (March 17, 1929)
Usual range
0.84 to 11.62 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Holmes 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 6.3 11.9 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 39.02 ft NGVD29. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 39.02 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

0.7 6.9 13.2 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1928

In 93 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1928), the highest peak was 27.10 ft on March 17, 1929. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 13.15 ft on October 14, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 32 of 93 years.

8 13 18 23 29 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 20 ft moderate 16 ft minor 14 ft action 10 ft Water year 1928: 21.60 ft on April 24, 1928 Water year 1929: 27.10 ft on March 17, 1929 Water year 1930: 14.83 ft on October 4, 1929 Water year 1931: 13.17 ft on November 19, 1930 Water year 1932: 12.19 ft on January 16, 1932 Water year 1933: 13.58 ft on March 24, 1933 Water year 1934: 12.28 ft on March 8, 1934 Water year 1935: 10.17 ft on March 12, 1935 Water year 1936: 14.16 ft on January 24, 1936 Water year 1937: 15.55 ft on September 4, 1937 Water year 1938: 13.03 ft on March 22, 1938 Water year 1939: 14.84 ft on August 18, 1939 Water year 1940: 12.90 ft on February 21, 1940 Water year 1941: 9.53 ft on December 31, 1940 Water year 1942: 11.86 ft on January 5, 1942 Water year 1943: 13.42 ft on January 24, 1943 Water year 1944: 13.60 ft on March 28, 1944 Water year 1945: 10.38 ft on May 3, 1945 Water year 1946: 14.03 ft on March 31, 1946 Water year 1947: 14.46 ft on March 10, 1947 Water year 1948: 14.47 ft on March 10, 1948 Water year 1950: 12.44 ft on September 3, 1950 Water year 1951: 11.14 ft on April 2, 1951 Water year 1952: 11.52 ft on February 19, 1952 Water year 1953: 13.21 ft on September 30, 1953 Water year 1954: 15.50 ft on December 9, 1953 Water year 1955: 13.02 ft on April 18, 1955 Water year 1956: 13.60 ft on September 29, 1956 Water year 1957: 13.78 ft on April 10, 1957 Water year 1958: 11.78 ft on March 13, 1958 Water year 1959: 12.46 ft on February 8, 1959 Water year 1960: 16.03 ft on April 7, 1960 Water year 1961: 14.38 ft on April 18, 1961 Water year 1962: 13.85 ft on April 3, 1962 Water year 1963: 13.00 ft on January 24, 1963 Water year 1964: 13.52 ft on May 4, 1964 Water year 1965: 13.91 ft on December 27, 1964 Water year 1966: 13.58 ft on March 4, 1966 Water year 1967: 13.15 ft on January 6, 1967 Water year 1968: 11.72 ft on December 13, 1967 Water year 1969: 12.59 ft on May 22, 1969 Water year 1970: 13.50 ft on April 4, 1970 Water year 1971: 13.20 ft on March 31, 1971 Water year 1972: 11.77 ft on December 25, 1971 Water year 1973: 14.50 ft on April 6, 1973 Water year 1974: 13.84 ft on February 10, 1974 Water year 1975: 18.39 ft on April 13, 1975 Water year 1976: 13.66 ft on October 21, 1975 Water year 1977: 13.90 ft on December 3, 1976 Water year 1978: 16.87 ft on January 29, 1978 Water year 1979: 15.09 ft on February 27, 1979 Water year 1980: 14.51 ft on March 15, 1980 Water year 1981: 14.11 ft on February 14, 1981 Water year 1982: 13.95 ft on February 6, 1982 Water year 1983: 13.46 ft on April 12, 1983 Water year 1984: 13.57 ft on March 9, 1984 Water year 1985: 13.56 ft on February 10, 1985 Water year 1986: 12.92 ft on March 14, 1986 Water year 1987: 11.74 ft on March 4, 1987 Water year 1988: 13.03 ft on March 8, 1988 Water year 1989: 14.35 ft on June 10, 1989 Water year 1990: 21.16 ft on March 21, 1990 Water year 1991: 14.88 ft on March 5, 1991 Water year 1992: 12.92 ft on February 9, 1992 Water year 1993: 14.21 ft on November 29, 1992 Water year 1994: 23.85 ft on July 9, 1994 Water year 1995: 14.49 ft on February 15, 1995 Water year 1997: 13.09 ft on February 18, 1997 Water year 2002: 11.33 ft on April 13, 2002 Water year 2003: 13.29 ft on April 12, 2003 Water year 2004: 13.12 ft on September 20, 2004 Water year 2005: 15.57 ft on April 4, 2005 Water year 2006: 12.23 ft on January 5, 2006 Water year 2007: 11.61 ft on April 19, 2007 Water year 2008: 13.54 ft on February 24, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.79 ft on March 31, 2009 Water year 2010: 16.71 ft on December 18, 2009 Water year 2011: 10.35 ft on March 13, 2011 Water year 2012: 12.80 ft on September 8, 2012 Water year 2013: 15.19 ft on February 27, 2013 Water year 2014: 15.28 ft on April 21, 2014 Water year 2015: 13.31 ft on April 22, 2015 Water year 2016: 16.69 ft on December 29, 2015 Water year 2017: 14.99 ft on January 5, 2017 Water year 2018: 14.36 ft on February 14, 2018 Water year 2019: 13.35 ft on December 5, 2018 Water year 2020: 15.91 ft on September 19, 2020 Water year 2021: 13.09 ft on April 26, 2021 Water year 2022: 13.44 ft on March 22, 2022 Water year 2023: 12.38 ft on February 3, 2023 Water year 2024: 13.83 ft on March 13, 2024 Water year 2025: 10.43 ft on May 15, 2025 Water year 2026: 13.39 ft on June 23, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 13.15 ft on October 14, 2026 1929 1994

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
March 17, 192927.10 ft13.1 ft
July 9, 199423.85 ft9.9 ft
April 24, 192821.60 ft7.6 ft
March 21, 199021.16 ft7.2 ft
March 11, 199819.63 ft5.6 ft
April 13, 197518.40 ft4.4 ft
March 31, 200917.79 ft3.8 ft
October 2, 199817.69 ft3.7 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

choctawhatchee-river-at-caryville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,044 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.