Musselshell River at Harlowton MT
Musselshell River MT USGS
Musselshell River at Harlowton MT (06120500) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the Musselshell River in MT, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 21 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06120500
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- MT
- Coordinates
- 46.4288, -109.8412
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled in this watershedMusselshell River at Harlowton MT has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling in the HUC8 watershed 10040201 containing this station. The dataset includes 21 species with recorded observations.
Species include: river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus), white sucker (Catostomus commersonii), mountain sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), northern redbelly dace (Chrosomus eos), and 16 others.
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- Longnose Sucker Catostomus catostomus
- White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
- Mountain Sucker Catostomus platyrhynchus
- Northern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus eos
- Mottled Sculpin Cottus bairdii
- Lake Chub Couesius plumbeus
- Western Silvery Minnow Hybognathus argyritis
- Brassy Minnow Hybognathus hankinsoni
- Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus
- Stonecat Noturus flavus
- Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii
- Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
- Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
- Flathead Chub Platygobio gracilis
- Mountain Whitefish Prosopium williamsoni
- Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae
- Brown Trout Salmo trutta
- Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis
Where these records come from
- Evidence
- Sampled in this watershed
- Fish were sampled elsewhere in the same watershed — a provincial or federal survey nearby, not at the gauge itself.
- Records
- 21 species
- from 21 individual records
- Observed
- Nov 14, 2012 – Apr 4, 2017
- 2 dated records