Caddo River level at Caddo Gap
Arkansas · Tubing & floating
Measured at USGS 07359610 — Caddo River near Caddo Gap, AR
Reading taken · as of 58 min ago
Low and slow — expect to drag in the shallows
At 24 CFS, this gauge is in the lowest 5% of the 37 years USGS has recorded for this date (1989–2026), at 47% of the 50 CFS median.
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Flow history at Caddo Gap
Daily values from USGS 07359610, updated every 15 to 60 minutes. Provisional.
About Caddo River at Caddo Gap
136 square miles is a small basin, and this station's record shows what a small basin can do. The highest daily mean on file is 18,100 CFS, from 3 December 1993; the lowest is 13.2 CFS, from 5 August 2012. That is a range of roughly fourteen hundred to one in the same series. The instantaneous peak on that December day reached 70,700 CFS at a stage of 26.27 feet.
There is no NWS forecast point here, so this page carries no flood category ladder and no impact statements. What it does carry is the USGS record: daily statistics covering 1989 to 2026, monthly medians running from 224 CFS in March down to 49 in September, and thirty-seven annual peaks between November 1988 and January 2025. Four of the five largest arrived after 2004.
Caddo River at Caddo Gap — common questions
5 questions
Why is there no flood stage information on this page?
Because the National Weather Service does not maintain a forecast point at this gauge. Flood categories, impact statements and the historical crest list all come from NWS forecast points, and this station has none, so the page shows USGS discharge and stage only. The annual peak record is the closest substitute: the top five peaks are 70,700 CFS in December 1993, 59,000 in June 2010, 35,800 in April 2017, 30,100 in April 2011 and 27,700 in October 2018.
How does this gauge compare with the Cossatot?
Closely, and over an unusually complete overlap. The Cossatot near Vandervoort is 35.9 miles away and the two gauges have reported on all 13,872 of the same days since October 1988. Across those days they correlate at 0.911 in log flow, and this gauge runs at a median of about twice the Cossatot's discharge. For two undammed Ouachita streams that is about as tightly coupled as the data on this site gets.
Does rain upstream change Caddo River at Caddo Gap quickly?
Yes. It is free-flowing, so rain upstream moves it directly. Several feet in a few hours is normal after a heavy storm.
Is Caddo River at Caddo Gap high or low for this time of year?
The USGS median flow for late September here is 50 CFS, from 37 years of record (1989–2026). Today sits in the lowest 5% of those years, at 47% of the median. The comparison is what makes the raw number mean anything: the same reading is a drought on one river and a flood on another.
How often does this reading update?
USGS transmits from gauge 07359610 every 15 to 60 minutes. This page refreshes from USGS when you open it, and the reading is provisional until USGS reviews it. The timestamp is in the gauge's local time.