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Sevenmile Creek, Minnesota

4.5 mapped river miles, draining 36 square miles, in the Minnesota Valley basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 7.3 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.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

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 7.3 miles away, at Minnesota River At Mankato — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

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Minnesota River At Mankato
7.3 mi away · 5,470 cfs
Unknown

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, 7.3 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.

Questions about this river

MN DNR trout stream designation

MN DNR lists Sevenmile 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.

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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.

Sevenmile Creek sits in HUC 8 07020002, 07020003, 07020006, 07020007 and 07020012, the Minnesota Valley basin, and drains 36 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 7 NHD reaches carry the name for 6.1 miles in total — more than the 4.5 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.

Other water nearby

The closest 1 river on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.