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Walled Lake Branch, Michigan
10.5 mapped river miles, draining 24 square miles, in the Detroit subbasin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 3.0 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is MDNR's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 9.3 miles away, at River Rouge At Southfield, Mi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — it has sent no water temperature for 3253 days, since 1 November 2017, so no number here comes from it.
The pills above go to USGS. These are this site's pages for the same gauges — a thirty-day chart, the monthly means, the record, and today's reading against the five-year normal for today: 04166700.
Thermal classification
MDNR types this water from its valley, not from a thermometer in it. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | MDNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 9.9–5.5 | 0.9 | warm | Warm stream · high gradient |
MDNR has classified 0.9 of the 10.5 miles NHD carries for this stream — 9% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, warm. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water MDNR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Walled Lake Branch fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Walled Lake Branch — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Walled Lake Branch — access, parking and public land
- Walled Lake Branch fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Public land on the river
10 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 817 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Park | — | 618 |
| Rotary Park | City of Novi | 67 |
| Orchard Hills Park | — | 43 |
| Northville West Recreation Area | — | 43 |
| Novi Dog Park And Ice Arena | City | 15 |
| River Park | Northville Parks and Recreation | 11 |
| Ford Field Park West | City of Northville | 6 |
| Ford Field Park East | — | 6 |
| Allen Drive Park | City | 5 |
| Mill Race Historic Village | Northville Historical Society | 3 |
Species
No species records for this water in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
47 insects are recorded from southern lower Michigan, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Eggs Other |
October–January and April | 33–60°F | #10–16 |
| Little Black Stonefly Allocapnia / Capnia spp. |
January–April | 34–46°F | #16–18 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Blue Quill Paraleptophlebia adoptiva |
April–May | 44–56°F | #16–18 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
| Light Cahill Maccaffertium ithaca |
May–July | 55–68°F | #12–16 |
| Little Sulphur Ephemerella dorothea |
May–July | 50–62°F | #16–20 |
And 33 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.
Tributaries and watershed
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Johnson Drain 14.7 mi · RM 0.0
- Bishop Creek 4.6 mi · RM 3.8
- Thornton Creek 4.3 mi · RM 2.3
Walled Lake Branch sits in HUC 8 04090004, the Detroit subbasin, and drains 24 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 34 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.5 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.