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USGS Gauge 0205551614 — Tinker Creek above Glade Creek at Roanoke, Virginia
Water temperature 65.8 °F. 1.4 °F above the five-year normal for this date. 18 cfs.
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Right now
- 65.8 °F Water temperature
- 18 Cubic ft / second
- +1.4 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 66.0 °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 64.3 °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 | 44.1 °F | 63 |
| Feb | 47.2 °F | 124 |
| Mar | 53.9 °F | 68 |
| Apr | 60.3 °F | 66 |
| May | 64.3 °F | 83 |
| Jun | 69.3 °F | 49 |
| Jul | 72.8 °F | 53 |
| Aug | 70.6 °F | 55 |
| Sep | 67.0 °F | 53 |
| Oct | 59.5 °F | 45 |
| Nov | 52.4 °F | 51 |
| Dec | 46.9 °F | 62 |
- 77.2 °FWarmest, 2026-07-07
- 34.3 °FColdest, 2026-01-25
- 2,070Highest flow, 2025-02-16
- 18Lowest flow, 2026-09-21
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,808 temperature days over 5.0 years and 1,824 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 72.3 °F; the fit explains 91% of the variance with a typical error of 1.268 °F.
The water it stands in
Tinker Creek, classified Class VII (stocked holdover) by VDWR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 3.3 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Tinker Creek (15000100039939), 6.2 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- Roanoke River at Route 117 at Roanoke, Va 5.4 mi · USGS 02054750
- Roanoke River at Rts 639/760 at Salem, Va 10.8 mi · USGS 02054550
- Roanoke River at Thirteenth St Br at Roanoke, Va 1.0 mi · USGS 02055080
Access near this gauge
- Tinker Creek Landing 0.5 mi · Tinker Creek
Fly shops nearby
- Blue Ridge Fly Fishers1.8 mi · Roanoke
- Bob's Up The Creek Outfitters17.3 mi
- Walkabout Outfitter27.4 mi · Blacksburg
- Angler's Lane34.6 mi · Forest