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Felton Creek, Minnesota
21 mapped river miles, draining 39 square miles, in the Eastern Wild Rice basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.5 miles away, and it is the only temperature evidence on this page — what Minnesota DNR publishes is the Chapter 6264 listing below — a land-use protection under Minnesota Rules, not a thermometer.
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 11.5 miles away, at Buffalo River Above U.s. Hwy. 10 At Hawley — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
Thermal classification
There isn't one. Minnesota DNR publishes no temperature classification for any water in Minnesota. What it publishes is the Chapter 6264 listing below — a land-use protection under Minnesota Rules, not a thermometer — so this river draws grey on the map above, and grey here means unmeasured rather than warm. The only temperature on this page is the live reading from the nearest USGS gauge, 11.5 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Felton Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Felton Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
MN DNR trout stream designation
MN DNR lists Felton Creek under Minnesota Rules Chapter 6264 as designated trout stream and designated trout stream tributary. Both appear because part of this water is the listed trout stream and part of it is a tributary protected for what it flows into — the second is not a claim that trout live in it. Chapter 6264 is a land-use rule — its stated purpose is timber harvest and watershed permitting, with recreation second. It is not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency, and it is not a statement about temperature.
MN DNR designated trout streams →
Species
Minnesota DNR designates this as trout water — Designated trout stream — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
Felton Creek sits in HUC 8 09020108, the Eastern Wild Rice basin, and drains 39 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 19 NHD reaches carry the name for 21.2 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 3 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.