USGS river gauges (live)
Live flow, stage, and temperature from every USGS station.
Real-time and historical USGS gauge data, synced hourly to Bield's backend so river pages always show current conditions without an external API round-trip on every page view.
Coverage
Every active USGS streamgage in the United States
Refresh cadence
Hourly cron pull from USGS Water Services
Status
Live in production
Agency
Used in Bield
Where this dataset shows up in the apps.
Bield: Fish
Gauge cards on river pages
Current flow + 7-day chart + percentile vs historical median.
Bield: Farm
Irrigation source monitoring
Watch the upstream gauge for water-availability decisions.
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Every river, stream, and waterbody, classified.
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Federal nautical charts for saltwater environments.