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USGS Gauge 04045500 — Tahquamenon River near Paradise, Michigan
285 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout46.57458, -85.26964 · 698 ft elevation · 685 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
This gauge is not reporting
- — Water temperature
- 285 Cubic ft / second
This gauge is not sending water temperature — USGS carries no water-temperature series for it at all. 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.
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 | — | 670 |
| Feb | — | 550 |
| Mar | — | 1,093 |
| Apr | — | 3,210 |
| May | — | 2,029 |
| Jun | — | 597 |
| Jul | — | 557 |
| Aug | — | 522 |
| Sep | — | 444 |
| Oct | — | 662 |
| Nov | — | 1,065 |
| Dec | — | 915 |
- 6,300Highest flow, 2026-04-25
- 234Lowest flow, 2024-08-08
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 0 temperature days and 1,821 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
Tahquamenon River, classified Cold stream by MDNR VSEC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 4.5 mi from the gauge.
Dams near this gauge
- Tahquamenon Falls (Lower Falls) 3.6 mi · the anadromous ceiling for the Tahquamenon River
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.