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Galesville Mill Dam, Wisconsin
Galesville Mill Dam on Beaver Creek in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout44.083188, -91.346431 · Trempealeau County · NID WI10620. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Beaver Creek carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Owner
- City Of Galesville Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1867 · modified 1913O
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 25 ft
- Length
- 120 ft
- Spillway
- Uncontrolled
- Storage
- 590 acre-ft · 107 acre pool
- Drainage
- 138 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · High hazard potential
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Beaver Creek 0.42 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
- Silver Creek 1.24 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Winona, MN | 14.6 mi | — | 14,600 cfs |
| Joos Valley Creek near Fountain City, WI | 18.2 mi | — | — |
| Eagle Creek at Ct Highway G near Fountain City, WI | 18.6 mi | — | — |
Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it. A hydro dam's releases move the flow below it on a schedule the gauge sees and this page does not. 3 of the gauges above are not sending water temperature at all — a stopped gauge still answers with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say so, so those rows carry a modelled figure where one can be fitted, marked as modelled, and a dash where it cannot.
Getting to it
- Marinuku Lake Access 0.3 mi · boat launch · Marinuku Lake
- Canoe Launch 3.1 mi · canoe launch · Black River
- Black River 5.9 mi · boat launch · Black River
- Third Lake Access North 7.0 mi · boat launch · Third Lake
- Third Lake Access South 7.1 mi · boat launch · Third Lake
- Second Lake Access 7.1 mi · boat launch · Second Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Hogline Bait & Tackle 13.8 mi · Winona · +1-507-474-9999
- Tri State Bait & Tackle 17.3 mi · La Crescent
- American Outfitters 33.2 mi