Gulf Coast Gauges

East Fork San Jacinto River near Cleveland water level

USGS gauge 08070000 · Liberty County · San Jacinto River watershed · NWS gauge CLDT2

4.26 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM CDT · 35 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
14.7 ft
NWS action stage
13.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
19.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
21.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
23.0 ft
Highest since 1956 (USGS)
27.17 ft (August 28, 2017)
Usual range
4.25 to 4.40 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Liberty 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

4.2 4.5 4.7 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 107.01 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 107.01 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

4.2 4.5 4.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1935

In 71 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1956), the highest peak was 27.17 ft on August 28, 2017. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.44 ft on October 5, 2026.

2 9 16 22 29 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 23 ft moderate 21 ft minor 19 ft action 13 ft Water year 1935: 23.60 ft on May 5, 1935 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1940: 10.70 ft on June 12, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1941: 24.10 ft on November 24, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1942: 15.42 ft on November 1, 1941 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1943: 12.51 ft on December 28, 1942 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1944: 8.73 ft on February 1, 1944 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1945: 18.32 ft on April 2, 1945 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1946: 13.63 ft on May 16, 1946 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1947: 17.29 ft on November 6, 1946 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1948: 5.64 ft on April 27, 1948 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1949: 13.48 ft on February 27, 1949 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1950: 14.80 ft on June 4, 1950 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1951: 3.94 ft on March 29, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1952: 8.70 ft on April 25, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 14.52 ft on April 30, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 4.55 ft on July 31, 1954 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 12.00 ft on February 7, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 9.45 ft on February 10, 1956 Water year 1957: 14.62 ft on April 30, 1957 Water year 1958: 18.07 ft on November 24, 1957 Water year 1959: 20.38 ft on April 19, 1959 Water year 1960: 16.65 ft on June 28, 1960 Water year 1961: 17.22 ft on September 13, 1961 Water year 1962: 11.22 ft on May 1, 1962 Water year 1963: 15.74 ft on December 31, 1962 Water year 1964: 15.65 ft on March 4, 1964 Water year 1965: 11.72 ft on February 20, 1965 Water year 1966: 15.96 ft on April 26, 1966 Water year 1967: 11.54 ft on June 3, 1967 Water year 1968: 19.57 ft on June 24, 1968 Water year 1969: 16.61 ft on May 10, 1969 Water year 1970: 11.06 ft on April 12, 1970 Water year 1971: 9.98 ft on May 12, 1971 Water year 1972: 12.73 ft on May 13, 1972 Water year 1973: 23.92 ft on June 14, 1973 Water year 1974: 17.34 ft on January 26, 1974 Water year 1975: 18.62 ft on October 30, 1974 Water year 1976: 18.29 ft on June 2, 1976 Water year 1977: 16.01 ft on April 22, 1977 Water year 1978: 14.15 ft on February 10, 1978 Water year 1979: 18.09 ft on September 21, 1979 Water year 1980: 15.24 ft on March 30, 1980 Water year 1981: 10.41 ft on June 13, 1981 Water year 1982: 18.68 ft on May 15, 1982 Water year 1983: 20.68 ft on May 22, 1983 Water year 1984: 15.17 ft on February 14, 1984 Water year 1985: 14.38 ft on November 18, 1984 Water year 1986: 17.83 ft on June 9, 1986 Water year 1987: 13.74 ft on June 12, 1987 Water year 1988: 12.61 ft on December 29, 1987 Water year 1989: 18.62 ft on May 19, 1989 Water year 1990: 16.10 ft on April 1, 1990 Water year 1991: 15.08 ft on January 21, 1991 Water year 1992: 17.21 ft on February 6, 1992 Water year 1993: 16.47 ft on January 22, 1993 Water year 1994: 14.37 ft on February 25, 1994 Water year 1995: 24.57 ft on October 18, 1994 Water year 1996: 15.96 ft on December 19, 1995 Water year 1997: 14.96 ft on February 16, 1997 Water year 1998: 24.57 ft on January 8, 1998 Water year 1999: 21.72 ft on November 14, 1998 Water year 2000: 10.33 ft on July 3, 2000 Water year 2001: 19.92 ft on June 10, 2001 Water year 2002: 18.15 ft on December 13, 2001 Water year 2003: 19.62 ft on November 6, 2002 Water year 2004: 18.50 ft on February 13, 2004 Water year 2005: 16.59 ft on November 25, 2004 Water year 2006: 8.42 ft on February 13, 2006 Water year 2007: 18.51 ft on October 17, 2006 Water year 2008: 14.01 ft on February 20, 2008 Water year 2009: 15.35 ft on April 21, 2009 Water year 2010: 14.95 ft on November 1, 2009 Water year 2011: 5.96 ft on July 20, 2011 Water year 2012: 15.71 ft on March 13, 2012 Water year 2013: 8.16 ft on February 22, 2013 Water year 2014: 15.47 ft on November 3, 2013 Water year 2015: 17.68 ft on May 14, 2015 Water year 2016: 20.85 ft on May 28, 2016 Water year 2017: 27.17 ft on August 28, 2017 Water year 2018: 18.91 ft on March 30, 2018 Water year 2019: 19.01 ft on September 19, 2019 Water year 2020: 14.62 ft on June 27, 2020 Water year 2021: 18.97 ft on May 2, 2021 Water year 2022: 10.98 ft on March 24, 2022 Water year 2023: 17.86 ft on April 8, 2023 Water year 2024: 25.82 ft on May 3, 2024 Water year 2025: 13.78 ft on May 5, 2025 Water year 2026: 10.50 ft on July 17, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.44 ft on October 5, 2026 2017 2024 1995

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
November 24, 194029.10 ft10.1 ft
August 28, 201727.17 ft8.2 ft
May 3, 202425.82 ft6.8 ft
October 17, 199424.57 ft5.6 ft
January 8, 199824.57 ft5.6 ft
June 14, 197323.92 ft4.9 ft
April 2, 194523.32 ft4.3 ft
November 6, 194622.29 ft3.3 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.

In past storms

StormPeakPeak timeRiseCompared with its record
October 1–2, 20264.42 ftOct 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM CDT0.1 fthighest since water year 2026 (10.50 ft on July 17, 2026)

Harris County gauge nearby

East Fork San Jacinto at SH 105, less than 0.1 mi away, read 111.52 ft at Oct 23, 2026 at 11:04 AM CDT, 14.8 ft below its top of bank. The county gauge reports elevation and this one gage height above a local zero, so compare how the two move rather than the numbers.

Download the readings

east-fork-san-jacinto-river-near-cleveland.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,037 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.