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USGS Gauge 04041500 — Sturgeon River near Alston, Michigan
Water temperature 58.1 °F. 5.4 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 108 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout46.72583, -88.66242 · 710 ft elevation · 340 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
This gauge is not reporting
- 58.1 °F Water temperature
- 108 Cubic ft / second
- -5.4 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 65.5 °FThis date last year
This gauge is not sending water temperature — it reported on only 19 of the last 30 days. USGS still answers for it, with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say the sensor has gone, so nothing on this page is presented as a current reading. Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own history and is unaffected. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 23 readings, averaging 68.2 °F.
The last thirty days
Daily means from USGS. A gap in the line is a gap in the record.
The record at this gauge
| Month | Mean temp | Mean flow |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 33.6 °F | 262 |
| Feb | 33.9 °F | 308 |
| Mar | 34.5 °F | 426 |
| Apr | 38.8 °F | 1,598 |
| May | 55.7 °F | 829 |
| Jun | 66.4 °F | 343 |
| Jul | 72.7 °F | 237 |
| Aug | 71.7 °F | 196 |
| Sep | 66.4 °F | 208 |
| Oct | 56.1 °F | 227 |
| Nov | 42.2 °F | 362 |
| Dec | 34.2 °F | 318 |
- 79.0 °FWarmest, 2026-07-14
- 32.5 °FColdest, 2026-03-16
- 5,640Highest flow, 2026-04-19
- 98Lowest flow, 2024-09-26
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,664 temperature days over 5.0 years and 1,787 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
The water it stands in
We hold no coldwater classification for this river, so the page makes no claim about one. The gauge is here because it stands close to water that does carry a designation.
Snapped to NHD reach Sturgeon River (60003200035594), 19.4 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Falls River near L'anse, MI 10.4 mi · USGS 04043097
- Gomanche Creek at Indian Road near L'anse, MI 14.3 mi · USGS 04043140
- Silver River Upstream of East Branch Nr L'anse, MI 15.7 mi · USGS 04043126
Dams near this gauge
- Prickett 0.3 mi · the anadromous ceiling for the Sturgeon River (Baraga County) · 54 ft
A dam upstream of a gauge moves what the gauge reads. A hydro dam moves it on a release schedule this page does not know.
Open this water on the map →Every reach around it coloured by today's water temperature, with the access points along it.