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USGS Gauge 04124000 — Manistee River near Sherman, Michigan
Water temperature 54.3 °F. 2.5 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 945 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout44.43639, -85.69868 · 804 ft elevation · 832 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 54.3 °F Water temperature
- 945 Cubic ft / second
- -2.5 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 61.4 °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 — 23 readings, averaging 59.9 °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 | 34.0 °F | 990 |
| Feb | 34.5 °F | 978 |
| Mar | 38.9 °F | 1,369 |
| Apr | 47.0 °F | 1,818 |
| May | 56.0 °F | 1,259 |
| Jun | 63.7 °F | 1,042 |
| Jul | 67.0 °F | 976 |
| Aug | 64.2 °F | 903 |
| Sep | 59.2 °F | 897 |
| Oct | 51.3 °F | 930 |
| Nov | 41.5 °F | 964 |
| Dec | 35.8 °F | 1,019 |
- 73.6 °FWarmest, 2025-06-23
- 31.8 °FColdest, 2022-01-10
- 5,750Highest flow, 2026-04-16
- 648Lowest flow, 2022-02-14
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,621 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 67.11 °F; the fit explains 90% of the variance with a typical error of 1.793 °F.
The water it stands in
Manistee River, classified Cold transitional large river by MDNR VSEC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.01 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Manistee River (60002500016759), 14.4 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Manistee River near Mesick, MI 7.9 mi · USGS 04124200
- Manistee River near Wellston, MI 17.1 mi · USGS 04125550
- Pine River at High School Bridge Nr Hoxeyville, MI 17.1 mi · USGS 04125460
Dams near this gauge
- Kerr Upper Dam 0.7 mi · 25 ft
- Hodenpyl 7.8 mi · 90 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
- Harvey Bridge 2.8 mi · boat launch · Manistee River
- Fish Lake 7.9 mi · boat launch · Fish Lake
Fly shops nearby
- Andy's Tackle Box17.9 mi · Brethren
- Schmidt Outfitters20.0 mi · Wellston
- Hawkins Outfitters22.6 mi · Traverse City
- Streamside Orvis22.9 mi · Traverse City