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USGS Gauge 0162588440 — South Fork Back Creek below Rt 814 Nr Sherando, Virginia
This gauge has stopped sending water temperature; the record below is its own.
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This gauge is not reporting
- 60.3 °F Water temperature
- — Cubic ft / second
This gauge is not sending water temperature — it has sent no water temperature for 2002 days, since 5 April 2021. 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. The figure above is modelled: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 3-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, built from 306 days of this gauge's own record. A gauge stopping does not unmake what it recorded while it ran, and the record below is the same record the line was fitted on. Its scatter against that record is ±2.2 °F, and it is a statement about what this water usually does at this air temperature, not about what it is doing. Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own history and is unaffected.
The record at this gauge
USGS returned no daily values for this gauge over the last 5 years. It may report instantaneous values only, or may have been discontinued.
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 70.8 °F; the fit explains 85% of the variance with a typical error of 2.206 °F.
The water it stands in
South Fork Back Creek, classified Class II (wild) by VDWR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 1.4 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach South Fork Back Creek (10000500035248), 4.8 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- South Fork Back Creek at Rt 814 near Sherando, VA 0.2 mi · USGS 0162588350
- Spruce Creek above Route 151 near Nellysford, VA 4.5 mi · USGS 0202848919
- Spruce Creek at Route 627 near Nellysford, VA 5.5 mi · USGS 0202848938
Dams near this gauge
- Lower Sherando Dam 1.0 mi · 38 ft
- Upper Sherando SCS 27 1.8 mi · 59 ft
- Nelson County Dam #4 5.3 mi · 26 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.
Fly shops nearby
- South River Fly Shop11.2 mi · Waynesboro
- Casta Line Trout Farms22.8 mi
- Walkabout Outfitters26.7 mi
- Albemarle Angler27.8 mi