Gulf Coast Gauges

Tchefuncte River at Madisonville water level

USGS gauge 07375230 · St. Tammany Parish · New Orleans and the Northshore · NWS gauge MSVL1

1.27 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM CDT · 2 hours ago

Highest since 2017 (USGS)
8.55 ft (August 29, 2021)
Usual range
0.80 to 2.19 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Tammany Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

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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 0.11 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 0.11 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

-0.0 1.5 3.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2004

In 10 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2017), the highest peak was 8.55 ft on August 29, 2021. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.10 ft on October 9, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 2 of 10 years.

2 4 6 9 11 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 2004: 6.67 ft on September 16, 2004 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 10.32 ft on August 29, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2006: 6.51 ft on April 30, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2007: 6.58 ft on October 16, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2016: 3.48 ft on April 17, 2016 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2017: 4.53 ft on June 21, 2017 Water year 2018: 3.80 ft on October 3, 2017 Water year 2019: 4.79 ft on July 13, 2019 Water year 2020: 4.97 ft on June 8, 2020 Water year 2021: 8.55 ft on August 29, 2021 Water year 2022: 2.40 ft on May 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 2.51 ft on April 13, 2023 Water year 2024: 5.15 ft on September 12, 2024 Water year 2025: 3.26 ft on November 14, 2024 Water year 2026: 3.37 ft on October 5, 2025 Water year 2027 so far: 3.10 ft on October 9, 2026 2021 2024

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 (5 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
August 29, 200510.32 ft—
August 30, 20128.53 ft—
September 16, 20046.67 ft—
October 26, 20154.53 ft—
April 17, 20164.10 ft—
March 10, 20163.99 ft—
March 21, 20123.46 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

tchefuncte-river-at-madisonville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,049 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.