Gulf Coast Gauges

Cow Bayou near Mauriceville water level

USGS gauge 08031000 · Orange County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge MCVT2

3.65 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM CDT · 65 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
13.3 ft
NWS action stage
16.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
17.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
18.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
20.0 ft
Highest since 1986 (USGS)
24.06 ft (September 20, 2019)
Usual range
3.66 to 3.80 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Orange County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.6 3.9 4.2 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 -1.62 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -1.62 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

3.6 3.9 4.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1952

In 24 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1986), the highest peak was 24.06 ft on September 20, 2019. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.84 ft on October 1, 2026.

2 8 14 20 26 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 20 ft moderate 18 ft minor 17 ft action 16 ft Water year 1952: 16.51 ft on February 2, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 14.15 ft on May 19, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 8.70 ft on April 19, 1954 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 10.72 ft on February 9, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 11.20 ft on February 9, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 13.80 ft on December 24, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 16.71 ft on September 23, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 14.68 ft on February 4, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 8.47 ft on February 21, 1960 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 15.56 ft on January 9, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 10.64 ft on December 18, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 18.15 ft on September 19, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 8.64 ft on March 5, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 7.94 ft on March 1, 1965 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 11.76 ft on May 13, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 13.55 ft on April 17, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 15.27 ft on June 25, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 13.60 ft on February 24, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 5.54 ft on May 31, 1970 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 18.16 ft on October 28, 1970 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 12.52 ft on December 8, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 14.12 ft on April 20, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 13.87 ft on January 22, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 15.77 ft on June 10, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 13.00 ft on March 10, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 10.72 ft on December 15, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 13.56 ft on June 28, 1978 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 16.92 ft on April 22, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 15.99 ft on May 19, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 13.16 ft on October 19, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 12.93 ft on May 14, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 16.98 ft on December 28, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1984: 11.27 ft on May 20, 1984 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1985: 17.55 ft on February 27, 1985 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1986: 17.80 ft on June 10, 1986 Water year 2003: 21.90 ft on October 30, 2002 Water year 2004: 17.63 ft on May 14, 2004 Water year 2005: 17.91 ft on September 24, 2005 Water year 2006: 17.99 ft on June 19, 2006 Water year 2007: 22.53 ft on October 29, 2006 Water year 2008: 16.63 ft on September 17, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.44 ft on April 19, 2009 Water year 2010: 16.94 ft on October 30, 2009 Water year 2011: 9.78 ft on March 5, 2011 Water year 2012: 18.55 ft on March 21, 2012 Water year 2013: 17.91 ft on May 13, 2013 Water year 2014: 18.02 ft on July 18, 2014 Water year 2015: 19.83 ft on June 21, 2015 Water year 2016: 20.12 ft on June 5, 2016 Water year 2018: 19.16 ft on March 29, 2018 Water year 2019: 24.06 ft on September 20, 2019 Water year 2020: 17.54 ft on May 14, 2020 Water year 2021: 21.92 ft on May 21, 2021 Water year 2022: 14.74 ft on October 27, 2021 Water year 2023: 16.86 ft on January 30, 2023 Water year 2024: 20.32 ft on May 3, 2024 Water year 2025: 17.77 ft on June 16, 2025 Water year 2026: 16.49 ft on June 21, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 3.84 ft on October 1, 2026 2019 2007

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 (34 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
August 30, 201726.85 ft9.9 ft
September 20, 201924.06 ft7.1 ft
October 29, 200622.53 ft5.5 ft
October 30, 200221.90 ft4.9 ft
June 5, 201620.25 ft3.2 ft
June 21, 201519.79 ft2.8 ft
November 3, 201519.76 ft2.8 ft
March 13, 201619.29 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

cow-bayou-near-mauriceville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,030 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.