Gulf Coast Gauges

Village Creek at US Highway 69 near Village Mills water level

USGS gauge 08041300 · Hardin County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge VIMT2

62.34 ft

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

Below NWS minor flood stage
7.7 ft
NWS action stage
68.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
70.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
75.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
79.0 ft
Highest since 2019 (USGS)
79.14 ft (May 3, 2024)
Usual range
62.40 to 64.02 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Hardin 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

62.3 63.2 64.0 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.

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

62.3 64.0 65.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2019

In 8 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2019), the highest peak was 79.14 ft on May 3, 2024. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 63.50 ft on October 7, 2026.

62 67 71 76 80 2020 2025 major 79 ft moderate 75 ft minor 70 ft action 68 ft Water year 2019: 73.44 ft on December 30, 2018 Water year 2020: 69.77 ft on October 30, 2019 Water year 2021: 73.82 ft on May 24, 2021 Water year 2022: 74.33 ft on January 10, 2022 Water year 2023: 72.62 ft on January 31, 2023 Water year 2024: 79.14 ft on May 3, 2024 Water year 2025: 72.36 ft on April 22, 2025 Water year 2026: 77.18 ft on September 4, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 63.50 ft on October 7, 2026 2024 2026 2022

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.

Download the readings

village-creek-at-us-highway-69-near-village-mills.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.