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Wakatomika Creek, Ohio
18.1 mapped river miles, draining 88 square miles, in the Muskingum basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 22.3 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.
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 22.3 miles away, at Raccoon Creek Near Granville Oh — 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, 22.3 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Wakatomika Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Wakatomika Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Ohio EPA classification
Ohio EPA classifies this water as Exceptional Warmwater Habitat and Exceptional Warmwater Habitat / Coldwater 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 →
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
5 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Winding Fork 11.3 mi · RM 5.1
- Brushy Fork 10.2 mi · RM 0.0
- Jug Run 4.3 mi · RM 6.6
- Anderson Run 2.9 mi · RM 7.7
- Pleasant Valley Run 2.1 mi · RM 16.9
Wakatomika Creek sits in HUC 8 05040004, the Muskingum basin, and drains 88 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 117 NHD reaches carry the name for 52.0 miles in total — more than the 18.1 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.