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USGS Gauge 02011500 — Back Creek near Mountain Grove, Virginia
Water temperature 64.9 °F. 25 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout Get it on the App Store38.0695688, -79.8970003. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
Right now
- 64.9 °F Water temperature
- 25 Cubic ft / second
Live from USGS — the numbers above are current rather than whenever the page was written.
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 | 37.2 °F | 152 |
| Feb | 39.9 °F | 414 |
| Mar | — | 211 |
| Apr | — | 215 |
| May | — | 269 |
| Jun | — | 83 |
| Jul | — | 51 |
| Aug | — | 30 |
| Sep | — | 28 |
| Oct | 60.4 °F | 25 |
| Nov | 44.3 °F | 32 |
| Dec | 41.1 °F | 73 |
- 67.3 °FWarmest, 2021-10-06
- 32.2 °FColdest, 2022-01-08
- 3,310Highest flow, 2022-05-07
- 12Lowest flow, 2024-09-09
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 151 temperature days over 0.4 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. This gauge has under 3 years of temperature record, which is why no normal is compared against above.
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 73.08 °F; the fit explains 80% of the variance with a typical error of 2.696 °F.
The water it stands in
Jackson River, classified Class V (stocked holdover) by VDWR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 1.94 mi from the gauge.
Other gauges near this one
- Jackson River near Bacova, Va 2.1 mi · USGS 02011400
- Jackson River Bl Gathright Dam Nr Hot Spgs, Va 8.8 mi · USGS 02011800
- Knapp Creek near Marlinton, Wv 11.4 mi · USGS 03181949
Dams near this gauge
- Bath County P S Lower Recreation Pond Dam 8.4 mi · 19 ft
- Bath County P S Upper Recreation Pond Dam 8.8 mi · 26 ft
- Bath County P S Lower Reservoir - Lower Dam 10.1 mi · 170 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
- Sherwood Lake 7.5 mi · boat launch · Lake Sherwood
Fly shops nearby
- Casta Line Trout Farms28.2 mi
- Walkabout Outfitters31.6 mi