Floyd River at Alton, IA
Floyd River IA USGS
Floyd River at Alton, IA (06600100) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the Floyd 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. 19 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06600100
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- IA
- Coordinates
- 42.9828, -96.0003
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled in this watershedFloyd River at Alton, IA has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling in the HUC8 watershed 10230002 containing this station. The dataset includes 19 species with recorded observations.
Species include: black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum), quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), white sucker (Catostomus commersonii), brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans), and 14 others.
- Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas
- Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum
- Quillback Carpiodes cyprinus
- White Sucker Catostomus commersonii
- Brook Stickleback Culaea inconstans
- Red Shiner Cyprinella lutrensis
- Johnny Darter Etheostoma nigrum
- Bigmouth Shiner Hybopsis dorsalis
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
- Orangespotted Sunfish Lepomis humilis
- Common Shiner Luxilus cornutus
- Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus
- Stonecat Noturus flavus
- Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
- Western Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys obtusus
- 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
- 19 species
- from 19 individual records
- Observed
- Jul 30, 2003 – Jul 30, 2003
- 1 dated record