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USGS Gauge 05331833 — Namekagon River at Leonards, Wisconsin
Water temperature 58.8 °F. 2.3 °F above the five-year normal for this date. 43 cfs.
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Right now
- 58.8 °F Water temperature
- 43 Cubic ft / second
- +2.3 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 57.8 °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 56.3 °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 | 33.3 °F | 96 |
| Feb | 34.0 °F | 87 |
| Mar | 36.9 °F | 110 |
| Apr | 43.4 °F | 244 |
| May | 55.9 °F | 216 |
| Jun | 62.8 °F | 135 |
| Jul | 65.4 °F | 106 |
| Aug | 61.9 °F | 81 |
| Sep | 58.1 °F | 82 |
| Oct | 49.3 °F | 95 |
| Nov | 38.8 °F | 105 |
| Dec | 34.3 °F | 101 |
- 73.0 °FWarmest, 2025-06-22
- 32.0 °FColdest, 2023-02-23
- 742Highest flow, 2023-04-21
- 39Lowest flow, 2026-09-25
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,808 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 65.79 °F; the fit explains 85% of the variance with a typical error of 2.087 °F.
The water it stands in
Namekagon River, classified Class II (wild supplemented) by WDNR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.04 mi from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach Namekagon River (22001200010709), 64.6 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Access near this gauge
- Squaw Bend Bridge Access 0.0 mi · canoe launch · Namekagon River
- Cable Wayside Access 1.2 mi · canoe launch · Namekagon River
- Pacwawong Flowage Access 1.7 mi · boat launch · Pacwawong Flowage
- Nemakagon River Access 2.6 mi · canoe launch · Nemakagon River
- Silverthorn Lake Access 2.9 mi · boat launch · Silverthorn Lake
- Totagatic Lake Access 3.0 mi · boat launch · Totagatic Lake
Fly shops nearby
- Lures of the North13.1 mi · Hayward
- Hayward Fly Fishing Company13.2 mi · Hayward