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Neenah Creek, Wisconsin
27 mapped river miles, draining 148 square miles, in the Upper Fox basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 34.7 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 34.7 miles away, at Fox River At Berlin, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The character of the water
Neenah Creek is the split case: Wisconsin DNR designates it Class I and Class III at once — managed as wild in some reaches and as stocked in others — and the thermal typing divides almost evenly, 10.4 miles Cool against 10.3 Cold out of 20.7 typed, 53 per cent of its 39.35 NHD miles. Half the creek classified and that half split down the middle is as far as this file goes; it cannot say which end each class sits at. There is no gauge in it; the nearest is on the Fox, 34.7 miles away. The channel is 21.9 feet across at the median, fifth order, draining 148.3 square miles over 27.1 mapped miles. No block of public land in these files fronts it. O'Keefe Creek, 13.4 miles long, comes in at river mile 16.6.
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 27.1–27.1 | 3.3 | cold | — |
| RM 27.1–27.1 | 0.8 | cool | — |
| RM 27.1–27.1 | 7.0 | cold | — |
| RM 27.1–18.3 | 9.6 | cool | — |
Wisconsin DNR has classified 20.7 of the 39 miles NHD carries for this stream — 53% of it. The typed water splits 10.4 mi cool, 10.3 mi 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
- Neenah Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Neenah Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- Neenah Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
- Is Neenah Creek good for brown trout?
Wisconsin DNR classification
Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class I and Class III. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. The management tier on those reaches is stocked, wild. 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 →
Species
WDNR has stocked brown trout into this water 5 times between 2015 and 2019. 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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- O'Keefe Creek 13.4 mi · RM 16.6
- South Branch Neenah Creek 4.4 mi · RM 12.2
- Big Slough 0.8 mi · RM 11.1
Neenah Creek sits in HUC 8 04030201, the Upper Fox basin, and drains 148 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 64 NHD reaches carry the name for 39.4 miles in total — more than the 27.1 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.