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USGS Gauge 03455500 — W F Pigeon R above Lake Logan Nr Hazelwood, Nc, North Carolina
Water temperature 57.6 °F. 2.1 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 17 cfs.
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Right now
- 57.6 °F Water temperature
- 17 Cubic ft / second
- -2.1 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 59.3 °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 — 21 readings, averaging 58.9 °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 | 37.3 °F | 117 |
| Feb | 42.1 °F | 126 |
| Mar | 46.5 °F | 113 |
| Apr | 52.7 °F | 86 |
| May | 56.2 °F | 104 |
| Jun | 61.2 °F | 61 |
| Jul | 65.8 °F | 45 |
| Aug | 64.5 °F | 54 |
| Sep | 61.3 °F | 87 |
| Oct | 52.5 °F | 61 |
| Nov | 46.5 °F | 49 |
| Dec | 40.1 °F | 91 |
- 70.0 °FWarmest, 2026-07-02
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2025-01-27
- 3,500Highest flow, 2024-09-27
- 14Lowest flow, 2024-09-11
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,331 temperature days over 3.7 years and 1,823 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 65.8 °F; the fit explains 87% of the variance with a typical error of 1.541 °F.
The water it stands in
West Fork Pigeon River, classified Delayed Harvest Trout Waters (stocked holdover) by NCWRC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.03 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach West Fork Pigeon River (25000400446332), 45.9 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Pigeon River near Canton, Nc 10.0 mi · USGS 03456991
- Mills River near Mills River, Nc 19.3 mi · USGS 03446000
Dams near this gauge
- Lake Logan Dam 1.9 mi · 62 ft
- Camp Daniel Boone Lake Dam 2.3 mi · 36 ft
- Mead Lake 9.1 mi · 42 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
- Cold Mountain 0.2 mi · walk in · West Fork Pigeon River
- Cold Mountain 2 0.9 mi · walk in · West Fork Pigeon River
- Vance Street Park 7.7 mi · walk in · Richland Creek
Fly shops nearby
- Maggie Valley Fly Shop11.4 mi · Maggie Valley
- Tuckaseegee Fly Shop16.1 mi · Sylva
- Davidson River Outfitters16.2 mi · Pisgah Forest
- Highland Hiker21.7 mi · Cashiers