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USGS Gauge 04101500 — St. Joseph River at Niles, Michigan
Water temperature 64.4 °F. 1.1 °F above the five-year normal for this date. 4,050 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout41.82921, -86.25973 · 633 ft elevation · 3,600 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 64.4 °F Water temperature
- 4,050 Cubic ft / second
- +1.1 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 71.7 °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 — 30 readings, averaging 70.7 °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 | 35.1 °F | 3,506 |
| Feb | 36.9 °F | 4,287 |
| Mar | 45.6 °F | 5,793 |
| Apr | 54.6 °F | 6,664 |
| May | 65.0 °F | 4,394 |
| Jun | 73.7 °F | 3,253 |
| Jul | 77.5 °F | 3,405 |
| Aug | 75.7 °F | 2,402 |
| Sep | 70.8 °F | 1,857 |
| Oct | 59.2 °F | 2,584 |
| Nov | 47.2 °F | 2,805 |
| Dec | 38.3 °F | 2,980 |
- 83.7 °FWarmest, 2025-06-26
- 31.8 °FColdest, 2025-01-20
- 11,000Highest flow, 2026-04-18
- 1,070Lowest flow, 2025-09-17
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,804 temperature days over 5.0 years and 1,825 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 77.64 °F; the fit explains 87% of the variance with a typical error of 2.241 °F.
The water it stands in
Saint Joseph River.
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 Saint Joseph River (60002600007615), 5.9 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Dowagiac Creek at Dutch Settlement Rd Nr Dowagiac, 17.0 mi · USGS 04101590
- Osborn Drain at Dewey Lake St Nr Glenwood, MI 18.5 mi · USGS 041015313
Dams near this gauge
- French Paper Company Dam 0.8 mi · 22 ft
- French Hydro 0.8 mi · 13 ft
- Buchanan 4.8 mi · 23 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.
Access near this gauge
- Dowagiac River Dodd Park 5.8 mi · walk in
Fly shops nearby
- Rusty Hooks Bait & Tackle LLC0.3 mi · Niles
- Tackle Shack30.4 mi