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Huron River, Ohio

14.8 mapped river miles, draining 402 square miles, in the Huron Vermilion basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and Ohio EPA's classification of the water itself.

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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

This gauge stands in the Huron River. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is Ohio EPA's — but the reading is this water.

65.5 °F
Huron River At Milan Oh
on this water · 25 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:30 pm ET
Cool

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, 0.0 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 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

6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 534 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Western Reserve Land Conservancy 277 local holder not recorded 62
Dupont Marsh Dedicated Nature Preserve state natural-resources agency 117
Coupling Reserve county land 56
Milan Wildlife Area state natural-resources agency 298
Flemmonds Landing city land 0
Huron Rotary Centennial Park Pier And Lighthouse city land 1

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

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

Huron River sits in HUC 8 04100012, the Huron Vermilion basin, and drains 402 square miles, Strahler order 6 at the mouth. 19 NHD reaches carry the name for 14.8 miles in total.

Other water nearby

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