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Center Fork, Ohio

6.0 mapped river miles, draining 11 square miles, in the Upper Ohio basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 6.7 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 6.7 miles away, at North Fork Mcguire Creek Near Carrollton Oh — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

62.8 °F
North Fork Mcguire Creek Near Carrollton Oh
6.7 mi away · read 30 Sep, 9:45 pm 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, 6.7 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 Exceptional Warmwater Habitat / 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 →

Species

Ohio EPA designates this as trout water — Exceptional Warmwater Habitat / 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

3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Center Fork sits in HUC 8 05030101, the Upper Ohio basin, and drains 11 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 16 NHD reaches carry the name for 6.0 miles in total.

Other water nearby

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