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Millhome Dam, Wisconsin
Millhome Dam is the top of the Sheboygan River run — 4 anadromous species stack below it out of Lake Michigan.
Open in BirdTrout43.894257, -87.962976 · Manitowoc County · NID WI00272. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
Millhome Dam is the anadromous ceiling for the Sheboygan River — the top of the run out of Lake Michigan. Fish moving up from the lake stop here, which is 40.7 miles of river below this structure.
| Species | In the river | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Chinook salmon | Aug–Oct | Stage off the harbour through August and run as the river cools; peak early to mid September, ahead of the Michigan shore. |
| Coho salmon | Sept–Oct | Behind the chinook and overlapping them; peak mid to late September. |
| Steelhead | Oct–May | Two runs on one calendar — a fall push from October that winters in the river, and the spring run peaking late March into April. |
| Lake-run brown trout | Oct–Nov | A moderate run with and behind the salmon; peak October. |
Curated calendar guidance from state run-timing prose, not regulation and not an observation of this river on any day. WDNR Great Lakes tributary run-timing guidance and stocking record, curated.
Ceiling cited as: OpenStreetMap way 891717940, Millhome Dam
The structure
- Owner
- TOWN OF SCHLESWIG Local Government
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Completed
- 1930
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 11 ft
- Length
- 104 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 250 acre-ft · 51 acre pool
- Drainage
- 168 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · Low 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
- Millhome Creek 0.56 mi from the dam · Class I · wild (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
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Cedar Lake Boat Ramp 2.1 mi · boat launch · Cedar Lake
- Sisson Park Boat Ramp 3.1 mi · boat launch · Sheboygan River
- Shoe Lake Boat Ramp 3.7 mi · boat launch · Shoe Lake
- Horseshoe Lake Boat Ramp 4.5 mi · boat launch · Horseshoe Lake
- Wilke Lake Boat Ramp 5.0 mi · boat launch · Wilke Lake
- Sheboygan Lake Access 5.3 mi · boat launch · Sheboygan 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
- Dutch's Trading Post 25.3 mi
- River Huas Bait LLC 25.5 mi
- Fish Tales 30.6 mi
- Southpaw Systems 32.2 mi · Denmark