Gulf Coast Gauges

North Branch Ward Creek at Baton Rouge water level

USGS gauge 07379100 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge NBWL1

13.87 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 4 hours ago

Highest since 1997 (USGS)
31.25 ft (May 17, 2021)
Usual range
13.84 to 14.07 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering East Baton Rouge Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

13.8 14.1 14.3 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 NAVD88, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

13.8 15.8 17.9 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1962

In 27 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1997), the highest peak was 31.25 ft on May 17, 2021. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 15.04 ft on October 4, 2026.

14 19 24 29 34 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1962: 31.82 ft on April 29, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 28.40 ft on January 1, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 29.14 ft on July 12, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 31.41 ft on September 10, 1965 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 29.13 ft on April 23, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 30.30 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 28.40 ft on January 1, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 30.29 ft on April 13, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 28.50 ft on January 1, 1970 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 28.50 ft on January 1, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 30.79 ft on May 7, 1972 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 30.23 ft on April 16, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 28.45 ft on January 1, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 28.92 ft on January 7, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 29.94 ft on May 10, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 31.46 ft on September 6, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 30.69 ft on May 3, 1978 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 28.46 ft on January 1, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 29.89 ft on April 13, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 28.42 ft on January 1, 1981 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 28.40 ft on January 1, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 30.32 ft on August 1, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1984: 28.40 ft on January 1, 1984 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1985: 27.60 ft on January 1, 1985 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1987: 30.00 ft on November 11, 1986 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1988: 29.90 ft on February 1, 1988 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1989: 32.14 ft on June 28, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1990: 27.63 ft on November 7, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1991: 26.79 ft on April 29, 1991 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1992: 30.69 ft on October 22, 1991 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1993: 28.34 ft on January 20, 1993 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1994: 26.42 ft on January 1, 1994 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1995: 30.18 ft on April 11, 1995 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1996: 28.07 ft on December 18, 1995 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1997: 28.10 ft on June 18, 1997 Water year 1998: 26.54 ft on September 12, 1998 Water year 1999: 25.72 ft on August 9, 1999 Water year 2002: 26.09 ft on March 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 24.68 ft on April 7, 2003 Water year 2004: 28.56 ft on May 12, 2004 Water year 2005: 28.54 ft on September 24, 2005 Water year 2006: 26.42 ft on August 24, 2006 Water year 2007: 27.28 ft on December 30, 2006 Water year 2008: 26.82 ft on May 14, 2008 Water year 2009: 24.38 ft on March 27, 2009 Water year 2010: 24.73 ft on December 8, 2009 Water year 2011: 22.44 ft on September 3, 2011 Water year 2012: 24.12 ft on August 18, 2012 Water year 2013: 26.35 ft on September 21, 2013 Water year 2014: 25.83 ft on May 9, 2014 Water year 2015: 25.21 ft on June 24, 2015 Water year 2016: 28.77 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 27.20 ft on April 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 25.62 ft on January 27, 2018 Water year 2020: 26.57 ft on July 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 31.25 ft on May 17, 2021 Water year 2022: 24.38 ft on July 28, 2022 Water year 2023: 27.27 ft on January 29, 2023 Water year 2024: 26.17 ft on December 1, 2023 Water year 2025: 26.06 ft on March 29, 2025 Water year 2026: 26.94 ft on May 8, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 15.04 ft on October 4, 2026 2021 2016 2004

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
April 29, 196231.82 ft—
September 6, 197731.46 ft—
September 10, 196531.41 ft—
May 7, 197230.79 ft—
May 3, 197830.69 ft—
August 1, 198330.32 ft—
April 14, 196730.30 ft—
April 13, 196930.29 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

north-branch-ward-creek-at-baton-rouge.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,046 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.