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Aurora Branch, Ohio
14.6 mapped river miles, draining 55 square miles, in the Ashtabula Chagrin basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.1 miles away, and it is the only temperature evidence on this page — what Ohio EPA publishes is the aquatic life use below — a habitat designation under Ohio Administrative Code 3745-1, which describes the assemblage the water holds rather than the temperature it runs at.
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 12.1 miles away, at Cuyahoga River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
Thermal classification
There isn't one. Ohio EPA publishes no temperature classification for any water in Ohio. What it publishes is the aquatic life use below — a habitat designation under Ohio Administrative Code 3745-1, which describes the assemblage the water holds rather than the temperature it runs at — 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, 12.1 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Aurora Branch fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Aurora Branch — access, parking and public land
- Aurora Branch fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Ohio EPA classification
Ohio EPA classifies this water as Coldwater Habitat and Warmwater Habitat. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river.Where it changes is on the map above, not in this page's tables: Ohio EPA publishes no temperature classification here, so nothing on this page is drawn from the class.This is Ohio EPA's description of the aquatic community the water supports, assigned under OAC 3745-1 on fish and macroinvertebrate survey scores. It is not the season and creel rules — those are the ODNR Division of Wildlife's, change yearly, and live with that agency.
Ohio EPA water quality standards, OAC 3745-1 →
Public land on the river
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 750 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Former Aurora Country Club | city land | 255 |
| Sunny Lake | city land | 58 |
| Spring Hill | city land | 120 |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy 142 | local holder not recorded | 160 |
| Aurora Sanctuary Nature Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 157 |
Species
Ohio EPA designates this as trout water — Coldwater Habitat — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
Aurora Branch sits in HUC 8 04110003, the Ashtabula Chagrin basin, and drains 55 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 41 NHD reaches carry the name for 19.9 miles in total — more than the 14.6 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.