Gulf Coast Gauges

Spindletop Bayou at SH 65 near Stowell water level

USGS gauge 08042539 · Chambers County

3.31 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:35 PM CDT · 15 minutes ago

Usual range
3.14 to 3.58 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Chambers 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

3.1 3.4 3.6 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

3.1 3.5 4.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

In past storms

StormPeakPeak timeRiseCompared with its record
October 1–2, 20263.46 ftOct 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM CDT0.2 ft—

Download the readings

spindletop-bayou-at-sh-65-near-stowell.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,043 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.