Gulf Coast Gauges

Neches River near Town Bluff water level

USGS gauge 08040600 · Jasper County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge TBFT2

48.23 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 50 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
19.8 ft
NWS action stage
64.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
68.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
72.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
82.5 ft
Highest since 1951 (USGS)
82.85 ft (May 21, 1953)
Usual range
47.00 to 48.39 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Jasper County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

47.0 47.7 48.4 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 the gauge's zero point. This gauge's zero is set at 0 ft NGVD29, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.

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

46.9 48.2 49.5 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1951

In 75 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1951), the highest peak was 82.85 ft on May 21, 1953. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 48.28 ft on October 17, 2026.

46 56 66 76 86 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 82.5 ft moderate 72 ft minor 68 ft action 64 ft Water year 1951: 69.17 ft on April 1, 1951 Water year 1952: 73.00 ft on May 25, 1952 Water year 1953: 82.85 ft on May 21, 1953 Water year 1954: 66.50 ft on May 7, 1954 Water year 1955: 73.22 ft on April 13, 1955 Water year 1956: 65.55 ft on February 10, 1956 Water year 1957: 80.04 ft on May 6, 1957 Water year 1958: 77.14 ft on November 28, 1957 Water year 1959: 74.79 ft on April 22, 1959 Water year 1960: 71.14 ft on February 29, 1960 Water year 1961: 77.14 ft on January 18, 1961 Water year 1962: 73.52 ft on May 8, 1962 Water year 1963: 67.29 ft on December 31, 1962 Water year 1964: 71.77 ft on April 29, 1964 Water year 1965: 62.35 ft on April 1, 1965 Water year 1966: 74.11 ft on February 10, 1966 Water year 1967: 59.35 ft on April 16, 1967 Water year 1968: 70.47 ft on May 31, 1968 Water year 1969: 75.52 ft on May 12, 1969 Water year 1970: 63.13 ft on May 4, 1970 Water year 1971: 56.59 ft on October 28, 1970 Water year 1972: 64.06 ft on March 23, 1972 Water year 1973: 75.85 ft on June 20, 1973 Water year 1974: 72.94 ft on February 1, 1974 Water year 1975: 69.14 ft on March 5, 1975 Water year 1976: 64.91 ft on May 8, 1976 Water year 1977: 64.61 ft on May 6, 1977 Water year 1978: 60.60 ft on January 26, 1978 Water year 1979: 69.76 ft on April 4, 1979 Water year 1980: 67.77 ft on May 26, 1980 Water year 1981: 65.67 ft on June 8, 1981 Water year 1982: 69.32 ft on May 20, 1982 Water year 1983: 70.74 ft on May 22, 1983 Water year 1984: 73.50 ft on February 12, 1984 Water year 1985: 63.35 ft on March 2, 1985 Water year 1986: 65.64 ft on June 9, 1986 Water year 1987: 72.43 ft on November 26, 1986 Water year 1988: 63.77 ft on December 8, 1987 Water year 1989: 78.49 ft on July 2, 1989 Water year 1990: 71.06 ft on March 30, 1990 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1991: 69.33 ft on January 25, 1991 Water year 1992: 75.73 ft on March 9, 1992 Water year 1993: 67.76 ft on April 4, 1993 Water year 1994: 66.69 ft on March 15, 1994 Water year 1995: 76.17 ft on October 23, 1994 Water year 1996: 67.27 ft on September 28, 1996 Water year 1997: 67.38 ft on March 13, 1997 Water year 1998: 71.46 ft on January 8, 1998 Water year 1999: 73.45 ft on March 14, 1999 Water year 2000: 58.99 ft on May 5, 2000 Water year 2001: 73.16 ft on June 17, 2001 Water year 2002: 66.61 ft on December 14, 2001 Water year 2003: 68.38 ft on November 5, 2002 Water year 2004: 66.64 ft on May 19, 2004 Water year 2005: 69.77 ft on November 30, 2004 Water year 2006: 60.19 ft on April 30, 2006 Water year 2007: 72.27 ft on October 20, 2006 Water year 2008: 64.21 ft on February 24, 2008 Water year 2009: 66.42 ft on May 4, 2009 Water year 2010: 65.38 ft on December 25, 2009 Water year 2011: 53.19 ft on February 1, 2011 Water year 2012: 67.64 ft on March 21, 2012 Water year 2013: 58.84 ft on January 10, 2013 Water year 2014: 70.89 ft on November 1, 2013 Water year 2015: 73.50 ft on May 29, 2015 Water year 2016: 76.06 ft on March 11, 2016 Water year 2017: 80.70 ft on August 31, 2017 Water year 2018: 75.57 ft on March 30, 2018 Water year 2019: 74.80 ft on January 4, 2019 Water year 2020: 67.48 ft on May 3, 2020 Water year 2021: 77.91 ft on May 18, 2021 Water year 2022: 60.24 ft on May 23, 2022 Water year 2023: 66.27 ft on May 18, 2023 Water year 2024: 76.20 ft on May 17, 2024 Water year 2025: 67.55 ft on June 22, 2025 Water year 2026: 58.65 ft on July 15, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 48.28 ft on October 17, 2026 1953 2017 1957

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 (1 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
May 1, 188486.80 ft18.8 ft
May 6, 194484.98 ft17.0 ft
May 21, 195382.85 ft14.8 ft
May 22, 193582.56 ft14.6 ft
August 31, 201780.70 ft12.7 ft
July 2, 198978.49 ft10.5 ft
May 18, 202177.91 ft9.9 ft
October 23, 199476.17 ft8.2 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

neches-river-near-town-bluff.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,035 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.