Rock River below Tom Creek at Rock Rapids, IA
Rock River IA USGS
Rock River below Tom Creek at Rock Rapids, IA (06483290) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the Rock River in IA, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 48 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06483290
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- IA
- Coordinates
- 43.4231, -96.1649
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled in this watershedRock River below Tom Creek at Rock Rapids, IA has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling in the HUC8 watershed 10170204 containing this station. The dataset includes 48 species with recorded observations.
Species include: black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum), river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), and 43 others.
- Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas
- Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens
- Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- Quillback Carpiodes cyprinus
- Highfin Carpsucker Carpiodes velifer
- White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
- Southern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus erythrogaster
- Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella non-native
- Brook Stickleback Culaea inconstans
- Red Shiner Cyprinella lutrensis
- Spotfin Shiner Cyprinella spiloptera
- Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum
- Northern Pike Esox lucius
- Iowa Darter Etheostoma exile
- Johnny Darter Etheostoma nigrum
- Plains Topminnow Fundulus sciadicus
- Goldeye Hiodon alosoides
- Brassy Minnow Hybognathus hankinsoni
- Bigmouth Shiner Hybopsis dorsalis
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Smallmouth Buffalo Ictiobus bubalus
- Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cyprinellus
- Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus
- Shortnose Gar Lepisosteus platostomus
- Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
- Orangespotted Sunfish Lepomis humilis
- Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
- Common Shiner Luxilus cornutus
- Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
- Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides
- Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus
- Topeka Shiner Notropis topeka
- Stonecat Noturus flavus
- Tadpole Madtom Noturus gyrinus
- Yellow Perch Perca flavescens
- Blackside Darter Percina maculata
- Trout-Perch Percopsis omiscomaycus
- Bluntnose Minnow Pimephales notatus
- Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
- Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus
- Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys atratulus
- Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus
- Sauger Sander canadensis
- Walleye Sander vitreus
- Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus
One species above is flagged non-native or potentially invasive (Grass Carp). Records show what has been observed near this station, not what is native to the watershed.
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
- 48 species
- from 48 individual records
- Observed
- Jul 25, 2000 – Sep 3, 2015
- 11 dated records