San Jacinto River at Lynchburg Ferry near Highlands water level

USGS gauge 08072150 · Harris County · San Jacinto River watershed

4.03 ft

gage height, Oct 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM CDT · 50 minutes ago

Usual range: 2.58 to 4.42 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Harris County was active when this page was generated (Oct 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

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. It is not a water depth. USGS publishes no datum elevation for this gauge, so it can't be converted to an elevation here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

In past storms

Storm	Peak	Peak time	Rise	Compared with its record
October 1–2, 2026	4.30 ft	Oct 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM CDT	1.4 ft	—

Harris County gauge nearby

Houston Ship Channel at Juan Seguin Park, 0.3 mi away, read 2.09 ft at Oct 20, 2026 at 11:14 AM CDT, 2.3 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

san-jacinto-river-at-lynchburg-ferry-near-highlands.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 268 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.