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EXPLORE RIVERS

Choose a river. See the whole picture.

Start with a river, not a single gauge. Each river page brings together its USGS monitoring locations, current conditions, measured water temperature, guides and a Follow the River view that connects the monitoring points along the waterway.

Browse rivers ↓Find a river by name
469connected river pages
2,022gauges organized into river pages
62in-depth river guides
Columbia River Gorge · NASA Earth Observatory · Public domain
WHAT YOU’LL FIND ON A RIVER PAGE

One river. Its gauges and context in one place.

Open a river first, then use Follow the River to move through its monitoring points in geographic order.

LIVE CONDITIONSSee what is rising and falling

Scan current streamflow and recent movement across monitored gauges.

Open Conditions →WATER TEMPERATUREFind measured river temperatures

See Fahrenheit and Celsius readings where USGS stations report temperature.

Explore temperatures →RIVER GUIDESGo beyond the gauge

Maps, access, fishing, boating, history, fish and useful places along the water.

Browse river guides →
FIND A RIVER

Search the river network by name

This searches river pages here. Gauge search stays under Find Water.

Search river pages directly. Looking for a specific USGS station? Use Find Water in the main navigation.

RIVER DIRECTORY

Start with the bigger river networks

Choose a river to open its river-wide view. From there, Follow the River connects the gauges in sequence along the waterway.

Arkansas · Indiana

White River

28 live gauges

View river →Iowa · Missouri · Kansas · Nebraska

Missouri River

26 live gauges

View river →Kansas · Arkansas · Colorado · Oklahoma

Arkansas River

24 live gauges

View river →Alabama · Georgia

Chattahoochee River

21 live gauges

View river →Indiana · Illinois · Kentucky · Ohio

Ohio River

21 live gauges

View river →Wisconsin · Illinois

Fox River

20 live gauges

View river →Pennsylvania · New York

Allegheny River

19 live gauges

View river →Utah · Kentucky · Wyoming

Green River

19 live gauges

View river →Maryland · Pennsylvania · New York

Susquehanna River

18 live gauges

View river →New York · New Jersey · Delaware · Pennsylvania

Delaware River

17 live gauges

View river →Illinois · Oklahoma · Arkansas

Illinois River

17 live gauges

View river →Mississippi · Louisiana

Pearl River

17 live gauges

View river →
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FEATURED RIVER GUIDES

There’s more to the river than the numbers.

Use the live data first, then dig into the places, people, fish and stories around the water.

View all 62 guides →
Minnesota → LouisianaMississippi RiverExplore the river →Colorado → CaliforniaColorado RiverExplore the river →Illinois · Indiana · KentuckyOhio RiverExplore the river →Montana → MissouriMissouri RiverExplore the river →New YorkHudson RiverExplore the river →Oregon · WashingtonColumbia RiverExplore the river →
BROWSE BY STATE

Find rivers where you are

Each state page gathers its monitored rivers and gauges into one clean directory.

Alabama13 rivers →Alaska16 rivers →Arizona12 rivers →Arkansas14 rivers →California10 rivers →Colorado14 rivers →Connecticut10 rivers →Delaware5 rivers →Florida8 rivers →Georgia12 rivers →Hawaii6 rivers →Idaho12 rivers →Illinois15 rivers →Indiana17 rivers →Iowa12 rivers →Kansas10 rivers →Kentucky16 rivers →Louisiana9 rivers →Maine11 rivers →Maryland9 rivers →Massachusetts9 rivers →Michigan14 rivers →Minnesota9 rivers →Mississippi8 rivers →Missouri11 rivers →Montana12 rivers →Nebraska12 rivers →Nevada4 rivers →New Hampshire7 rivers →New Jersey13 rivers →New Mexico8 rivers →New York14 rivers →North Carolina16 rivers →North Dakota8 rivers →Ohio12 rivers →Oklahoma14 rivers →Oregon12 rivers →Pennsylvania15 rivers →Rhode Island7 rivers →South Carolina16 rivers →South Dakota6 rivers →Tennessee15 rivers →Texas9 rivers →Utah13 rivers →Vermont7 rivers →Virginia16 rivers →Washington13 rivers →West Virginia16 rivers →Wisconsin12 rivers →Wyoming22 rivers →
WHY THESE RIVERS?

Built around monitored water.

This is not a generic list of U.S. rivers. Rivers appear here when they connect to gauges in the Get Water Data monitoring catalog. River pages organize those gauges into one waterway view, while state pages provide the broader local directory.

Measurements are provisional USGS data and may be revised.