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Pioneer Creek, Wisconsin

10.7 mapped river miles, draining 29 square miles, in the Upper Wisconsin basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 17.7 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR'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

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 gauge, and why there is no reading from it

The nearest gauge, 17.7 miles away at Allequash Creek Near Sayner, Wi, is not reporting water temperature: it has sent no water temperature for 1789 days, since 4 November 2021. A stopped gauge repeats its last value in silence, so there is no live temperature here. What is below is modelled from the years that gauge did report: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 3-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, ±2.2 °F. The shape of the week at that gauge, not a thermometer in this stream.

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.

Wisconsin DNR has classified 6.2 of the 10.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 58% 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

• Pioneer Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish Pioneer Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
• How to get to Pioneer Creek — access, parking and public land
• Pioneer Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

Wisconsin DNR classification

Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class I and Class II. 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 wild, wild supplemented. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

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Public land on the river

3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 43,061 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

Wisconsin DNR designates this as trout water — Class I, Class II — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Hatches on this water

42 insects are recorded from northern Wisconsin, 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.

And 28 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

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

• Wisconsin River 84.1 mi · RM 0.0
• Twin River 7.9 mi · RM 10.7

Pioneer Creek sits in HUC 8 07070001, the Upper Wisconsin basin, and drains 29 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 9 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.7 miles in total.

Other water nearby

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

• Sucker Creek 1.9 mi
• Buckatabon Creek 2.6 mi
• Muskrat Creek 3.1 mi
• Wisconsin River 3.8 mi
• Portage Creek 3.8 mi
• Tamarack Creek 4.2 mi