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USGS Gauge 04125460 — Pine River at High School Bridge Nr Hoxeyville, Michigan

Water temperature 52.0 °F. 1.4 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 209 cfs.

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44.19334, -85.76979 · 817 ft elevation · 231 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →

Right now

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 55.9 °F.

The last thirty days

Water temperature, °F · daily mean
2026-08-20 54.0–61.0 °F 2026-09-18
Streamflow, cfs · daily mean
2026-08-20 205–263 cfs 2026-09-18

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 35.9 °F 243
Feb 36.5 °F 242
Mar 39.6 °F 368
Apr 46.8 °F 503
May 54.5 °F 292
Jun 59.2 °F 252
Jul 61.1 °F 223
Aug 59.1 °F 219
Sep 55.4 °F 209
Oct 49.4 °F 222
Nov 42.5 °F 228
Dec 37.9 °F 252

Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,825 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 61.31 °F; the fit explains 85% of the variance with a typical error of 1.493 °F.

The water it stands in

Pine River, classified Cold stream by MDNR VSEC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.06 mi from the gauge.

Snapped to NHD reach Pine River (60002500006205), 6.6 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.

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