Rivers in Minnesota

Bear River near Manitowish Waters, WI

Iron County, MinnesotaNWS POWW3USGS 05357335Duluth office

No flood stages set
2.95ftStage

Observed Sun, Sep 20, 4:15 PM CDT

Record crest
5.53 ft2019

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Flood stages and impacts

  1. 11.00 ftRiver inundates the road at River Road bridge.
  2. 7.50 ftRiver reaches bankfull stage. No impacts known.

Crest history

28 crests on NOAA’s list since 1991.

#DateStage
1October 5, 20195.53 ft
2October 12, 20185.47 ft
3April 12, 20145.39 ft
4September 26, 20105.34 ft
5April 12, 20225.30 ft
6June 19, 20175.17 ft
7May 1, 20135.15 ft
8June 27, 20244.93 ft
9January 1, 20064.72 ft
10March 18, 20164.71 ft
11April 4, 20204.63 ft
12April 13, 20214.52 ft
13March 13, 20124.47 ft
14April 22, 20254.40 ft
15April 23, 20084.21 ft
16March 18, 20093.93 ft
17April 17, 20023.62 ft
18September 23, 19943.47 ft
19April 25, 19963.38 ft
20May 17, 20033.22 ft
21March 29, 20043.17 ft
22November 3, 19912.82 ft
23June 21, 19932.66 ft
24April 22, 19922.66 ft
25April 13, 20012.64 ft

Most recent crests

  • April 22, 2025: 4.40 ft
  • June 27, 2024: 4.93 ft
  • April 12, 2022: 5.30 ft
  • April 13, 2021: 4.52 ft
  • April 4, 2020: 4.63 ft
  • October 5, 2019: 5.53 ft
  • October 12, 2018: 5.47 ft
  • June 19, 2017: 5.17 ft
  • March 18, 2016: 4.71 ft
  • April 12, 2014: 5.39 ft

Nearby

Upstream, downstream and the gauges around this one.

What this means

Forecasts by the North Central River Forecast Center. Forecasts are not available. Only observed stages are available for this point.

Sources

Stage, flood stages, impacts and crest history from NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service. Streamflow and the daily record from the U.S. Geological Survey.