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Beaver Creek, Wisconsin
17.3 mapped river miles, draining 113 square miles, in the Black basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 29.8 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR's classification of the water itself.
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 29.8 miles away, at Silver Creek At State Highway 21 Near Angelo, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The character of the water
Beaver Creek is Class II water under Wisconsin DNR, managed as wild supplemented, with 11.8 of its 18.46 NHD miles typed Cold — 64 per cent, and nothing on it classed otherwise. There is no gauge in it and no measured temperature. For a creek it is a wide one: 26.9 feet across at the median, fifth order, draining 112.88 square miles over the 17.3 miles of axis mapped. Public ground is nominal here rather than useful — the Van Loon Wildlife Area covers 4,060 acres and fronts a hundredth of a mile of this water, which is a corner rather than a bank. Four named tributaries come in along the length: French Creek high at river mile 14.0, then Dutch and Silver Creeks through the middle, and Little Tamarack Creek at 3.3 near the bottom.
Thermal classification
Wisconsin DNR's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | Wisconsin DNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 17.3–6.6 | 11.8 | cold | — |
Wisconsin DNR has classified 11.8 of the 18.5 miles NHD carries for this stream — 64% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water Wisconsin DNR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Beaver Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Beaver Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Beaver Creek — access, parking and public land
- Beaver Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
- Is Beaver Creek good for brown trout?
- Is Beaver Creek good for rainbow trout?
Wisconsin DNR classification
Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class II. The management tier on those reaches is wild supplemented. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
WDNR trout stream classification →
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 4,060 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Van Loon Wildlife Area | state natural-resources agency | 4,060 |
Species
WDNR has stocked brown trout into this water 10 times between 2015 and 2024. That is a stocking record rather than a survey — it says the fish were put in, not that a survey has found them since.
WDNR has stocked rainbow trout into this water once, in 2025. That is a stocking record rather than a survey — it says the fish were put in, not that a survey has found them since.
Hatches on this water
51 insects are recorded from the Wisconsin driftless, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Eggs Other |
October–January and April | 33–60°F | #10–16 |
| Little Black Stonefly Allocapnia / Capnia spp. |
January–April | 34–46°F | #16–18 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Blue Quill Paraleptophlebia adoptiva |
April–May | 44–56°F | #16–18 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
| Inchworm Geometridae |
May–June | 50–68°F | #12–16 |
| Light Cahill Maccaffertium ithaca |
May–July | 55–68°F | #12–16 |
And 37 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.
Tributaries and watershed
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- French Creek 9.7 mi · RM 14.0
- Little Tamarack Creek 9.2 mi · RM 3.3
- Dutch Creek 4.5 mi · RM 9.6
- Silver Creek 3.8 mi · RM 8.3
Beaver Creek sits in HUC 8 07040007, the Black basin, and drains 113 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 38 NHD reaches carry the name for 18.5 miles in total — more than the 17.3 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.