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USGS Gauge 04063700 — Popple River near Fence, Michigan
Water temperature 56.8 °F. 4.5 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 27 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout45.76361, -88.46361 · 1406 ft elevation. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 56.8 °F Water temperature
- 27 Cubic ft / second
- -4.5 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 64.1 °FThis date last year
Live from USGS — the numbers above are current rather than whenever the page was written. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 28 readings, averaging 63.3 °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 | 32.2 °F | 41 |
| Feb | 32.2 °F | 37 |
| Mar | 32.9 °F | 91 |
| Apr | 40.4 °F | 397 |
| May | 57.3 °F | 219 |
| Jun | 66.0 °F | 109 |
| Jul | 71.1 °F | 74 |
| Aug | 68.0 °F | 43 |
| Sep | 61.6 °F | 40 |
| Oct | 49.7 °F | 46 |
| Nov | 36.9 °F | 75 |
| Dec | 32.2 °F | 50 |
- 81.9 °FWarmest, 2026-07-14
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2023-11-26
- 1,360Highest flow, 2023-04-17
- 19Lowest flow, 2024-10-03
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,809 temperature days over 5.0 years and 1,824 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
What this gauge predicts
This is one of the gauges this site fits an air-to-water model against, which is how the map colours water that has no gauge on it. July mean 70.94 °F; the fit explains 89% of the variance with a typical error of 2.402 °F.
The water it stands in
Popple River, classified Class III (stocked) by WDNR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.02 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Popple River (60002700021998), 16.0 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Access near this gauge
- Popple River Access- Morgan Lake Road 0.0 mi · canoe launch · Popple River
- Popple River Access 3.1 mi · canoe launch · Popple River
- Lund Lake Access 3.2 mi · canoe launch · Lund Lake
- Hilbert Lake - West Access 3.9 mi · boat launch · Hilbert Lake
- Oneonta Lake Carry-In 4.0 mi · canoe launch · Oneonta Lake
- Popple River Access - Hwy 101 4.1 mi · canoe launch · Popple River
Fly shops nearby
- Popp's Resort34.4 mi · Crivitz