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Pickerel Creek, Minnesota
3.8 mapped river miles, draining 1 square mile, in the Prairie Willow basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 20.3 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 35.9 miles away, at Sand River Near Britt, Mn — 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 1790 days, since 3 November 2021, so no number here comes from it.
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, 20.3 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Pickerel Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Pickerel Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
MN DNR trout stream designation
MN DNR lists Pickerel Creek under Minnesota Rules Chapter 6264 as designated trout stream. 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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Swan River 30.1 mi · RM 0.0
- O'Brien Creek 6.8 mi · RM 0.0
- Oxhide Creek 3.4 mi · RM 0.0
Pickerel Creek sits in HUC 8 07010103, the Prairie Willow basin, and drains 1 square mile, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 9 NHD reaches carry the name for 3.8 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.