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Chagrin River, Ohio

24 mapped river miles, draining 52 square miles, in the Ashtabula Chagrin basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.3 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

58 64 70

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 16.7 miles away, at Cuyahoga River At Independence 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.

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

The lake run

The Chagrin River is a Lake Erie tributary with 27.5 miles of run corridor on it — salmon, steelhead and lake-run brown trout, on their own calendar and under their own rules. Run timing, species and access on the Chagrin River →

Questions about this river

• Chagrin River fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to the Chagrin River — access, parking and public land
• Chagrin River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

Ohio EPA classification

Ohio EPA classifies this water as Warmwater 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

12 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 2,755 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

Ohio EPA designates this as trout water — Warmwater 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.

• Silver Creek 8.4 mi · RM 7.0

Chagrin River sits in HUC 8 04110003, the Ashtabula Chagrin basin, and drains 52 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 138 NHD reaches carry the name for 52.0 miles in total — more than the 24.2 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.

• East Branch Chagrin River 2.3 mi
• Pierson Creek 3.2 mi
• Ellison Creek 3.8 mi
• Silver Creek 4.0 mi
• Taber Creek 4.2 mi
• Kellogg Creek 4.4 mi