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Aylworth Creek, Ohio

4.7 mapped river miles, draining 3 square miles, in the Grand basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 6.3 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.

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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 24.0 miles away, at Mosquito Creek Near Greene Center Oh — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 28 September 2026, so no number here comes from it.

58.5 °F
Mosquito Creek Near Greene Center Oh
24.0 mi away · 1 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:45 am ET
Cold-transitional

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

Questions about this river

Ohio EPA classification

Ohio EPA classifies this water as Coldwater Habitat. 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

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 60 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Girdled Road Reservation city land 60

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

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

Aylworth Creek sits in HUC 8 04110004, the Grand basin, and drains 3 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 12 NHD reaches carry the name for 4.7 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.