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USGS Gauge 0205551460 — Lick Run above Patton Avenue at Roanoke, Virginia
5 cfs.
Open in BirdTrout Get it on the App Store37.27794444, -79.9375556. This gauge on USGS Water Data →
This gauge is not reporting
- 62.9 °F Water temperature
- 5 Cubic ft / second
This gauge is not sending water temperature — it has sent no water temperature for 720 days, since 8 October 2024. 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 916 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 ±1.5 °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.
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 | — | 8 |
| Feb | — | 8 |
| Mar | — | 6 |
| Apr | — | 7 |
| May | — | 9 |
| Jun | — | 6 |
| Jul | — | 7 |
| Aug | — | 6 |
| Sep | — | 8 |
| Oct | — | 6 |
| Nov | — | 8 |
| Dec | — | 6 |
- 145Highest flow, 2022-11-11
- 3Lowest flow, 2023-11-13
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 0 temperature days and 1,103 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 68.99 °F; the fit explains 80% of the variance with a typical error of 1.5 °F.
The water it stands in
We hold no coldwater classification for this river, so the page makes no claim about one. The gauge is here because it stands close to water that does carry a designation.
Snapped to NHD reach Lick Run (15000100132302), 0.6 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Tinker Creek above Glade Creek at Roanoke, VA 1.5 mi · USGS 0205551614
- Roanoke River at Route 117 at Roanoke, Va 3.9 mi · USGS 02054750
- Roanoke River at Rts 639/760 at Salem, Va 9.2 mi · USGS 02054550
Access near this gauge
- Tinker Creek Landing 1.9 mi · Tinker Creek
Fly shops nearby
- Blue Ridge Fly Fishers0.5 mi · Roanoke
- Bob's Up The Creek Outfitters18.7 mi
- Walkabout Outfitter25.9 mi · Blacksburg