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USGS Gauge 04127200 — Boardman River at Beitner Rd Nr Traverse City, Michigan
1,190 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout44.67528, -85.63091 · 665 ft elevation · 212 sq mi drainage. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
This gauge is not reporting
- — Water temperature
- 1,190 Cubic ft / second
This gauge is not sending water temperature — USGS carries no water-temperature series for it at all. USGS still answers for it, with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say the sensor has gone, so nothing on this page is presented as a current reading. Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own history and is unaffected.
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 | — | 254 |
| Feb | — | 247 |
| Mar | — | 328 |
| Apr | — | 375 |
| May | — | 303 |
| Jun | — | 264 |
| Jul | — | 230 |
| Aug | — | 223 |
| Sep | — | 231 |
| Oct | — | 243 |
| Nov | — | 246 |
| Dec | — | 256 |
- 1,190Highest flow, 2026-04-13
- 178Lowest flow, 2025-10-05
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 0 temperature days and 1,659 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
The water it stands in
Boardman River, classified Cold small river by MDNR VSEC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.01 mi from the gauge.
Other gauges near this one
- Manistee River near Sherman, MI 16.8 mi · USGS 04124000
- Boardman River at Traverse City, MI 6.2 mi · USGS 04127499
- Boardman R above Brown Bridge Road Nr Mayfield, MI 9.6 mi · USGS 04126970
Dams near this gauge
- Sabin Dam 2.3 mi · 34 ft
- Union Street Dam 6.0 mi · the anadromous ceiling for the Boardman River · 21 ft
- Brown Bridge Dam 6.4 mi · 46 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
- Shumsky Road 2.6 mi · canoe launch · Boardman River
- Silver Lake 3.0 mi · boat launch · Silver Lake
- Bass Lake North 4.2 mi · boat launch · Bass Lake
- Arbutus Lake 5.4 mi · boat launch · Arbutus Lake
- Ellis Lake 5.6 mi · boat launch · Ellis Lake
- Spider Lake 6.2 mi · boat launch · Spider Lake
Fly shops nearby
- Hawkins Outfitters5.8 mi · Traverse City
- Streamside Orvis6.1 mi · Traverse City
- The Northern Angler6.2 mi · Traverse City
- North Shore Outfitters31.3 mi · Northport