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Spring Branch, Minnesota

5.1 mapped river miles, draining 4 square miles, in the Pine basin watershed.

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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.

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.

Questions about this river

MN DNR trout stream designation

MN DNR lists Spring Branch 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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Public land on the river

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 122 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Spire Valley Ama (Cass) Minnesota DNR 122

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

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Spring Branch sits in HUC 8 07010105, the Pine basin, and drains 4 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 7 NHD reaches carry the name for 5.1 miles in total.