Spring Creek near Spring
Highest listed crest 111.60 ftFlood stage 91.5 ft7 crests since 1992
The Spring Creek near Spring crested at major flood stage 4 times among the 7 crests the National Weather Service lists from 1992 to 2017. The highest, 111.60 ft on October 18, 1994, was major flooding, 20.10 feet above flood stage.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 111.60 ft
- October 18, 1994; 78,800 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 91.5 ft
- Major flooding from 100.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 4
- 157th of 370 gauges in Texas
- Most recent flood crest
- August 29, 2017
- 111.52 ft, major flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 88.0 | 1 | May 30, 2014 |
| Flood stage (minor) | 91.5 | 0 | — |
| Moderate flood stage | 95.0 | 1 | May 28, 2015 |
| Major flood stage | 100.0 | 4 | Aug 29, 2017 |
Every listed crest
7 crests from 1992 to 2017. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
Crests at or above flood stage, by decade
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
- 34 crests measured on an earlier gauge datum are left out: 34.30 ft on May 30, 1929; 33.60 ft on Nov 25, 1940; 27.78 ft on Apr 9, 1942; 25.09 ft on Jul 30, 1943; 32.79 ft on Aug 30, 1945; 27.97 ft on May 21, 1946; and more.
Highest crests
| 1 | Oct 18, 1994 | 111.60 | +20.10 | Major |
| 2 | Aug 29, 2017 | 111.52 | +20.02 | Major |
| 3 | May 28, 2016 | 108.37 | +16.87 | Major |
| 4 | Apr 20, 2016 | 103.68 | +12.18 | Major |
| 5 | May 28, 2015 | 95.08 | +3.58 | Moderate |
| 6 | May 30, 2014 | 88.98 | −2.52 | Action |
| 7 | Mar 6, 1992 | 21.43 | −70.07 | Below flood stage |
The worst floods along the Spring Creek
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Spring Creek that crested above flood stage within a week.
Gauges on the Spring Creek
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| Tomball | TX | 166.38 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 3 |
| Spring this gauge | TX | 111.60 ft, Oct 18, 1994 | 4 |
Other gauges in Harris County
| Barker | 114.86 ft, Apr 18, 2016 | 5 |
| Gessner Drive | 61.60 ft, May 26, 2015 | 7 |
| Houston | 45.67 ft, Aug 27, 2017 | 1 |
| Barker Reservoir | 101.60 ft, Aug 27, 2017 | 0 |
| Piney Point Village | 62.84 ft, Aug 31, 2017 | 1 |
| Shepherd Drive | 41.90 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 2 |
| West Belt Drive | 71.22 ft, Aug 31, 2017 | 3 |
| Crosby | 58.99 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 0 |
| Telephone Road | 47.40 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 0 |
| Cypress | 129.97 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 3 |
| Hockley | 162.85 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 6 |
| Westfield | 97.12 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 9 |
| Houston | 62.88 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 10 |
| Houston | 44.85 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 17 |
| Houston | 86.16 ft, Apr 18, 2016 | 0 |
| Addicks Reservoir | 109.09 ft, Aug 30, 2017 | 0 |
| Addicks | 112.64 ft, Apr 18, 2016 | 3 |
| Sheldon | 28.72 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 16 |
| Houston | 30.44 ft, Oct 5, 1981 | 5 |
| Tide Station (HGX) at Manchester | 7.57 ft, Sep 14, 2021 | 1 |
| Tide Station (HGX) at Morgan's Point | 6.03 ft, Sep 14, 2021 | 1 |
| Humble | 69.18 ft, Aug 29, 2017 | 24 |
| Houston | 45.60 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 4 |
| Tomball | 133.89 ft, Aug 28, 2017 | 1 |
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NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge SPNT2, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.