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USGS Gauge 0351706800 — Cheoah River Nr Bearpen Gap Nr Tapoco, Nc, North Carolina
Water temperature 68.7 °F. 1.5 °F below the five-year normal for this date. 96 cfs.
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Right now
- 68.7 °F Water temperature
- 96 Cubic ft / second
- -1.5 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 71.2 °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 — 31 readings, averaging 68.2 °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 | 42.6 °F | 168 |
| Feb | 45.9 °F | 346 |
| Mar | 51.9 °F | 277 |
| Apr | 59.3 °F | 298 |
| May | 66.0 °F | 328 |
| Jun | 72.7 °F | 160 |
| Jul | 77.1 °F | 150 |
| Aug | 75.9 °F | 134 |
| Sep | 72.4 °F | 133 |
| Oct | 62.3 °F | 104 |
| Nov | 53.8 °F | 107 |
| Dec | 47.5 °F | 133 |
- 82.0 °FWarmest, 2026-07-02
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2022-12-24
- 3,050Highest flow, 2024-09-27
- 70Lowest flow, 2022-10-14
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,823 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 76.74 °F; the fit explains 85% of the variance with a typical error of 1.974 °F.
The water it stands in
Cheoah River, classified Wild Trout Waters (wild) by NCWRC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.51 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Cheoah River (25000400324753), 22.6 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Dams near this gauge
- Cheoah 1.2 mi · 236 ft
- Fontana Dam 6.5 mi · 480 ft
- Phillips Dam 11.0 mi · 31 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
- Cheoah Point 5.2 mi · boat launch · Lake Santeetlah
- Lewellyn Branch 5.7 mi · walk in · Cheoah Lake
- Lewellyn Branch 5.7 mi · boat launch · Cheoah Lake
Fly shops nearby
- NOC Outfitter's Store19.8 mi · Bryson City
- Carolina Outfitters20.5 mi
- GSM Outfitters25.2 mi · Sevierville
- Hurshel's Outfitters32.0 mi