Gulf Coast Gauges

Ward Creek at Government St at Baton Rouge water level

USGS gauge 07379000 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge WBRL1

31.68 ft

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

Highest since 1970 (USGS)
44.71 ft (April 11, 1995)
Usual range
31.59 to 31.67 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

31.6 31.8 32.1 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 this gauge's own zero point, which sits at -2.09 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -2.09 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

31.4 31.8 32.2 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1954

In 56 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1970), the highest peak was 44.71 ft on April 11, 1995. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 32.19 ft on October 4, 2026.

4 15 26 37 48 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1954: 13.62 ft on May 3, 1954 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 11.97 ft on February 5, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 9.89 ft on August 20, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 12.46 ft on September 26, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 11.70 ft on January 12, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 11.55 ft on August 1, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 11.04 ft on December 18, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 8.84 ft on February 17, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 11.14 ft on April 28, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 7.40 ft on October 1, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 10.27 ft on July 13, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 11.43 ft on October 4, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 10.97 ft on April 21, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 12.86 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 44.49 ft on April 13, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 40.77 ft on October 7, 1969 Water year 1971: 41.71 ft on September 16, 1971 Water year 1972: 42.86 ft on May 7, 1972 Water year 1973: 43.52 ft on September 13, 1973 Water year 1975: 41.85 ft on November 5, 1974 Water year 1976: 41.14 ft on June 28, 1976 Water year 1977: 40.65 ft on September 5, 1977 Water year 1978: 40.82 ft on July 27, 1978 Water year 1979: 40.07 ft on April 21, 1979 Water year 1980: 41.62 ft on April 13, 1980 Water year 1981: 37.83 ft on October 18, 1980 Water year 1982: 36.76 ft on April 21, 1982 Water year 1983: 42.01 ft on August 1, 1983 Water year 1984: 40.05 ft on June 27, 1984 Water year 1985: 39.80 ft on October 22, 1984 Water year 1986: 37.49 ft on February 4, 1986 Water year 1987: 42.10 ft on August 11, 1987 Water year 1988: 41.99 ft on February 1, 1988 Water year 1989: 43.65 ft on June 28, 1989 Water year 1990: 43.24 ft on November 7, 1989 Water year 1991: 41.70 ft on August 30, 1991 Water year 1992: 43.91 ft on October 22, 1991 Water year 1993: 40.80 ft on April 14, 1993 Water year 1994: 42.51 ft on July 8, 1994 Water year 1995: 44.71 ft on April 11, 1995 Water year 1996: 41.84 ft on March 6, 1996 Water year 1997: 42.16 ft on June 18, 1997 Water year 1998: 40.30 ft on January 12, 1998 Water year 1999: 40.43 ft on January 29, 1999 Water year 2000: 37.90 ft on July 23, 2000 Water year 2001: 43.43 ft on June 7, 2001 Water year 2002: 40.84 ft on March 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 40.38 ft on February 21, 2003 Water year 2004: 41.84 ft on May 12, 2004 Water year 2005: 42.02 ft on September 24, 2005 Water year 2006: 41.95 ft on August 24, 2006 Water year 2007: 43.45 ft on May 4, 2007 Water year 2008: 41.07 ft on May 14, 2008 Water year 2009: 37.88 ft on March 26, 2009 Water year 2010: 38.61 ft on December 8, 2009 Water year 2011: 38.11 ft on September 3, 2011 Water year 2012: 40.03 ft on August 18, 2012 Water year 2013: 40.34 ft on May 10, 2013 Water year 2014: 40.35 ft on July 13, 2014 Water year 2015: 41.34 ft on November 16, 2014 Water year 2016: 43.63 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 41.97 ft on April 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 42.56 ft on June 12, 2018 Water year 2019: 43.52 ft on June 6, 2019 Water year 2020: 40.72 ft on July 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 42.01 ft on October 9, 2020 Water year 2022: 41.52 ft on August 3, 2022 Water year 2023: 40.87 ft on January 29, 2023 Water year 2024: 39.87 ft on December 1, 2023 Water year 2025: 39.29 ft on March 29, 2025 Water year 2026: 42.90 ft on May 8, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 32.19 ft on October 4, 2026 1995 1989

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 (15 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
September 26, 195745.28 ft—
May 4, 200743.45 ft—
August 12, 201642.88 ft—
August 24, 200641.95 ft—
November 16, 201441.34 ft—
May 14, 200841.07 ft—
October 25, 201540.88 ft—
May 10, 201340.34 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

ward-creek-at-government-st-at-baton-rouge.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.