Lake Belton water level
Leon River · Texas · operated by USACE (Belton Dam)
By Michael, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USGS feed the operator reports to.
Lake Belton is 95.9% full as of Nov 5, 2026, per the Texas Water Development Board; the USGS gage reads 592.5 ft, 1.5 ft below full pool.
Is that normal for the date?
At 592.54 ft, Lake Belton is higher than 50% of Novembers in 27 years of daily record.
The median for this date across 27 years is 592.55 ft, so this is -0.01 ft against the lake’s own history. Placed on a quantile ladder built from 9,316 daily readings published by USGS for site 08102000, 2000-10-01 to 2026-08-06. This reservoir typically peaks in June and bottoms out in December.
Lake Belton today: level, trend, source and access
Level against full pool
On Nov 5, 2026 the surface sat at 592.5 ft, 1.5 ft below the full-pool mark of 594 ft. The Texas Water Development Board rates its conservation storage at 95.9% full. Of the 15 Texas lakes on this site with a live percent-full reading, it ranks 3 of 15.
Trend
Between Oct 7 and Nov 5 (29 days) the level fell 0.7 ft, about 0.2 ft a week. The high in that window was 593.3 ft on Oct 7 and the low was 592.5 ft on Nov 5. In the last 7 days it fell 0.1 ft. The last 24 hours changed it by less than 0.1 ft.
Data source
The elevation comes from USGS monitoring location 08102000 (lake surface elevation above NGVD 1929, parameter 62614), last reported Nov 5, 2026. Percent full is the Texas Water Development Board daily storage estimate for the same lake. Feet from full pool, the trend and the figures above are computed from that reading and the published full-pool elevation; none is typed by hand. USACE (Belton Dam) runs the dam on the Leon River.
Recreation status
Status: near full. At 95.9% full it is 35.9 points above 60%, the line above which most ramps stay in the water, so a normal ramp day is likely. Ramps still close on their own schedules, so check yours with USACE (Belton Dam).
Check an elevation against full pool
For readers outside the U.S., the surface of Lake Belton is about 180.6 m above sea level, and full pool is about 181.1 m.
Check any elevation yourself. Type a level in feet above sea level (a ramp cutoff, a marina mark) to see how far it sits below full pool and in meters.