SOUTH FORK BAD RIVER NEAR COTTONWOOD, SD
SOUTH FORK BAD RIVER SD USGS
SOUTH FORK BAD RIVER NEAR COTTONWOOD, SD (06440200) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the SOUTH FORK BAD RIVER in SD, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 29 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06440200
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- SD
- Coordinates
- 43.9690, -101.7668
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled in this watershedSouth Fork Bad River Near Cottonwood, SD has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling in the HUC8 watershed 10140102 containing this station. The dataset includes 29 species with recorded observations.
Species include: black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), white sucker (Catostomus commersonii), and 24 others.
- Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas
- Yellow Bullhead Ameiurus natalis
- Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
- Red Shiner Cyprinella lutrensis
- Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum
- Goldeye Hiodon alosoides
- Western Silvery Minnow Hybognathus argyritis
- Brassy Minnow Hybognathus hankinsoni
- Plains Minnow Hybognathus placitus
- Bigmouth Shiner Hybopsis dorsalis
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
- Orangespotted Sunfish Lepomis humilis
- Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
- Common Shiner Luxilus cornutus
- Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
- White Bass Morone chrysops
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas
- Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides
- Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus
- Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
- Flathead Chub Platygobio gracilis
- Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus
- Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae
- Walleye Sander vitreus
- Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus
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
- 29 species
- from 29 individual records
- Observed
- Jun 17, 2009 – Oct 3, 2015
- 9 dated records