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USGS Gauge 04108660 — Kalamazoo River at New Richmond, Michigan
Water temperature 63.3 °F. 0.5 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 2,280 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout42.65086, -86.1067 · 571 ft elevation · 1,887 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 63.3 °F Water temperature
- 2,280 Cubic ft / second
- -0.5 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 71.9 °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 — 27 readings, averaging 70.1 °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 | 34.2 °F | 2,009 |
| Feb | 35.1 °F | 2,238 |
| Mar | 43.5 °F | 2,753 |
| Apr | 53.4 °F | 3,520 |
| May | 64.1 °F | 2,212 |
| Jun | 73.8 °F | 1,642 |
| Jul | 77.6 °F | 1,670 |
| Aug | 75.3 °F | 1,429 |
| Sep | 70.1 °F | 1,137 |
| Oct | 58.0 °F | 1,421 |
| Nov | 45.4 °F | 1,538 |
| Dec | 36.6 °F | 1,759 |
- 84.6 °FWarmest, 2025-06-27
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2022-01-06
- 8,430Highest flow, 2023-04-07
- 748Lowest flow, 2025-10-06
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,778 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 77.62 °F; the fit explains 89% of the variance with a typical error of 2.192 °F.
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 Kalamazoo River (60002600019435), 57.9 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Kalamazoo River near Allegan, MI 19.5 mi · USGS 04107850
Dams near this gauge
- Allegan 9.8 mi · 30 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
- Kalamazoo River New Richmond 0.1 mi · walk in
- Hacklander 3.0 mi · boat launch · Kalamazoo River
- Howard Schultz Park 4.2 mi · walk in · Kalamazoo Lake
- Kalamazoo River Ottawa Landing 4.3 mi · walk in
- Kalamazoo River Saugatuck Harbor 5.1 mi · walk in
- George Schutmaat Park 5.6 mi · walk in · Rabbit River
Fly shops nearby
- Mac Baits10.3 mi · Holland
- Nomad Anglers31.0 mi · Grand Rapids