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Schoolcraft River, Minnesota
14.4 mapped river miles, draining 112 square miles, in the Mississippi Headwaters basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.3 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 gauge, and why there is no reading from it
The nearest gauge, 12.3 miles away at Mississippi River Near Vern, is not reporting water temperature: USGS carries no water-temperature series for it at all. A stopped gauge repeats its last value in silence, so there is no live temperature here. Nor is there a model to put in its place: that gauge has too little record to fit one, and this site does not print a temperature it cannot stand behind.
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, 12.3 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Schoolcraft River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Schoolcraft River — access, parking and public land
- Schoolcraft River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
MN DNR trout stream designation
MN DNR lists Schoolcraft River 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 →
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 60,911 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Schoolcraft River Ama (Hubbard) | Minnesota DNR | 61 |
| Paul Bunyan | Minnesota DNR | 60,850 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Buffalo Creek 2.6 mi · RM 7.4
- Birch Creek 1.2 mi · RM 5.0
Schoolcraft River sits in HUC 8 07010101, the Mississippi Headwaters basin, and drains 112 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 26 NHD reaches carry the name for 21.1 miles in total — more than the 14.4 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.