Manitowoc River at Manitowoc, WI
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin · USGS 04085427
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Manitowoc River at its USGS monitoring location in Manitowoc County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 31 minutes ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Above historical median · Falling
Streamflow is currently 319 ft³/s, 4.6× the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 56 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 70 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 29.9 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 25.2 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 22.7 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 22.6 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 21.3 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 25.8 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 28.7 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 101 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 283 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 384 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 378 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 376 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 385 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 372 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 322 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 254 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 191 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 149 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 181 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 208 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 238 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 244 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 307 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 397 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 440 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 453 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 449 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 431 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 398 CFS |
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