BirdTrout
Jefferson National Forest, Virginia
712,459 acres of public ground in Craig, Smyth, Bland, Botetourt counties, managed by US Forest Service. 430 named streams run through it, of which 199 are designated trout water — 415.9 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is Virginia DWR's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water Virginia DWR has not typed.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
Open to the public without a permit, as PAD-US records it. State licence and season rules still apply.
This unit is 163 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are USDA Forest Service's to say.
Trout streams on this ground
Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 142 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is Virginia DWR's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinch River | 80.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Craig Creek | 63.9 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| South Fork Holston River | 62.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Potts Creek | 48.2 | untyped | — | Class V |
| Wolf Creek | 47.7 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Middle Fork Holston River | 46.7 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Mill Creek | 45.0 | untyped | — | Class I, Class II, Class III |
| Catawba Creek | 44.3 | untyped | — | Class V |
| Sinking Creek | 40.6 | untyped | — | Class V |
| Johns Creek | 39.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Guest River | 37.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Dry Run | 34.3 | untyped | — | Class II, Class IV |
| Little Walker Creek | 32.0 | untyped | — | — |
| James River | 30.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Brush Creek | 27.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Creek | 22.6 | untyped | — | Class II, Class III |
| Laurel Creek | 21.6 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Fox Creek | 18.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Helton Creek | 18.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Toms Creek | 18.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wilson Creek | 18.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Barbours Creek | 18.1 | untyped | — | Class II, Class VI |
| Beaverdam Creek | 18.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Cripple Creek | 17.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Creek | 17.2 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Laurel Creek | 17.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Lick Creek | 17.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Peak Creek | 15.9 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Mill Creek | 15.1 | untyped | — | Class II, Class III, Class VI |
| Mill Creek | 14.9 | untyped | — | Class V |
| Wilson Creek | 14.8 | untyped | — | Class II, Class VI |
| Stony Creek | 14.7 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Hunting Camp Creek | 14.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Whitetop Laurel Creek | 14.1 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Stock Creek | 13.7 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Tract Fork | 13.3 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Laurel Creek | 12.9 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Little Stony Creek | 12.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Reed Creek | 12.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Nobusiness Creek | 12.2 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Cove Creek | 12.1 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Cove Creek | 11.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Fox Creek | 11.7 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Little Stony Creek | 11.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Jennings Creek | 10.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Dry Run | 10.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Mill Creek | 10.1 | untyped | — | Class II, Class VI |
| Dismal Creek | 9.7 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Dry Branch | 9.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Kimberling Creek | 9.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Creek | 9.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Bear Creek | 9.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Run | 8.8 | untyped | — | Class II, Class III |
| Hunting Creek | 8.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Knob Fork | 8.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Straight Branch | 8.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Blue Spring Creek | 8.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Staley Creek | 8.0 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Dry Creek | 7.7 | untyped | — | — |
| North Buffalo Creek | 7.6 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| North Fork Catawba Creek | 7.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Creek | 7.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Poverty Creek | 7.3 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Pound River | 7.2 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| North Creek | 7.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Staunton Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Wilson Creek | 6.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| North Fork Stony Creek | 6.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Spur Branch | 6.6 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Elk Creek | 6.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Comers Creek | 6.3 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Meadow Creek | 6.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Roaring Run | 6.2 | untyped | — | Class V |
| Back Run | 6.1 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Little Catawba Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cove Branch | 6.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Crigger Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Day Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Middle Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Turkey Fork | 6.0 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Rocky Branch | 5.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rowland Creek | 5.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Big Laurel Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Mill Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rush Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Stone Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Straight Fork | 5.7 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Trout Creek | 5.6 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Battery Creek | 5.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Roaring Fork | 5.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| East Fork Elk Creek | 5.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Green Cove Creek | 5.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Lynn Camp Creek | 5.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Dickey Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Nicks Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Saint Clair Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Wilson Branch | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Buffalo Creek | 5.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Dicks Creek | 5.2 | untyped | — | Other trout water |
| Possum Creek | 5.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Overstreet Creek | 5.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Buzzard Den Branch | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Ding Branch | 4.9 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Dry Creek | 4.9 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Jones Branch | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Jerry Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Jerrys Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Smith Branch | 4.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Laymantown Creek | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| McFalls Creek | 4.7 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Little Laurel Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Paint Bank Branch | 4.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Paxton Branch | 4.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cabin Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Clear Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | Class VIII |
| Devil Fork | 4.4 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Francis Mill Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Cold Spring Branch | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Fork Helton Creek | 4.3 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Shawvers Run | 4.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Dry Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Lees Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Peters Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Ramey Branch | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Tub Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Bearwallow Creek | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Ellis Run | 4.1 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Hutton Branch | 4.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Whitetop Creek | 4.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cressy Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Laurel Branch | 4.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Dry Fork | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Grindstone Branch | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hurricane Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Laurel Branch | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Elk Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Bishop Branch | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Broad Hollow Creek | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Chimney Rock Fork | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| East Dry Run Fork | 3.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Kinser Creek | 3.8 | untyped | — | Class III |
| White Rock Branch | 3.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Dry Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Killinger Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Little Oregon Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| South Prong Barbours Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Stony Battle Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Bournes Branch | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Curry Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Hipes Branch | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Laurel Fork | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class VIII |
| Ripshin Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Sprouts Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| West Branch Grannys Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Big Spring Branch | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Brushy Run | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Burns Creek | 3.5 | untyped | — | Class VIII |
| East Fork Indian Grave Creek | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Meadow Branch | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Stone Coal Creek | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Indian Grave Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Kent Branch | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Wolf Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Persimmon Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Pondlick Branch | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Corder Branch | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Dulton Branch | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Branch | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Machine Creek | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Punch and Judy Creek | 3.3 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Taylor Branch | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Vaught Branch | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Beech Creek | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Comers Rock Branch | 3.2 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Georges Branch | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Glade Branch | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Branch | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Patterson Creek | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| McGhee Creek | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Snow Creek | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Sugarcamp Branch | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Furnace Branch | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Jones Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Little Brush Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Sprouts Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Matts Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mullins Branch | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Raccoon Branch | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Valley Branch | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Grannys Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Gunstock Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Lick Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Pool Spring Branch | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Rabbit Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Ramsey Branch | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Snodgrass Branch | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| War Spur Branch | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Bad Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Bucks Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Corner Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| East Fork Nicks Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Glady Fork | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Henry Widener Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Marchant Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Phillippi Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Quarter Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Standrock Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Upper Twin Branch | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Hellgate Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Church Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Crab Orchard Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Dismal Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Jones Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Lemons Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Lewis Fork | 2.8 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Lower Twin Branch | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Camp Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Valley Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | Class III |
| West Dry Run Fork | 2.8 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Barkcamp Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Barton Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Coalpit Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Cornelius Creek | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cove Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Fallingwater Creek | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Falls Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Hiram Thompson Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Porterfield Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Sturgill Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Chestnut Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Eliber Springs Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hopper Creek | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Houndshell Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Kimballton Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| McQueen Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Pearis Thompson Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Scott Branch | 2.6 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Bear Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Billys Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Jaybird Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wright Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Biggs Run | 2.4 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Fortnerfield Branch | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Mudlick Branch | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Skeet Rock Branch | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Smith Run | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Stidham Fork | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Turnpike Creek | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Chestnut Camp Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Dry Fork | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Beartown Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Pennington Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Saltpeter Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Slabtown Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Spec Mines Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Wright Branch | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Carter Branch | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Deans Branch | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Fox Branch | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Dry Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Dry Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Hellgate Creek | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Schoolhouse Branch | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Thomas Branch | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Beartown Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Big Laurel Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Daves Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Indianfield Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mercy Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Pole Bridge Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Right Fork Upper Twin Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Sites Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Yellowstone Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Bellamy Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Branch | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Big Cove Branch | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Black Branch | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Byars Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Eastland Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| High Trestle Branch | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Lost Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Opossum Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Parks Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Pepper Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Slemp Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Solomon Branch | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Adaline Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Blevins Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Brush Creek | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Coon Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Crawford Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Double Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Feathercamp Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Granny Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Lipes Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| London Bridge Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Meredith Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Negro Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Shupe Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Star Hill Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Baker Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Bark Camp Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Dixon Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Harvel Creek | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Jack Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Raccoon Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Roddy Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Rush Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Simpson Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Stinking Creek | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Creek | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Wright Branch | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Altoona Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Baker Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Oak Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Shuffle Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Cabin Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Davey Land Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Elliot Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Grassy Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Mahogany Spring Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Sartain Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| West Fork Hopkins Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolfpen Branch | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Bearpen Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bee Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Belfast Creek | 1.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Big Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Wilson Creek | 1.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Champ Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Chestnut Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Deisher Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| East Fork Hopkins Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Mud Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Orchard Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Swanson Branch | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bark Camp Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Bell Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Bob King Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Burnt Cabin Creek | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Carters Creek | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Deavers Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Falling Rock Creek | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Hagan Spring Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Healing Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Jinkerson Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Hollow Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Left Fork Upper Twin Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Muddy Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Shade Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Waterfall Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Yellow Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Brier Run | 1.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Carr Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Church Rock Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Dickey Farm Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Eddys Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Hemlock Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Joel Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Double Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Maple Flats Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Mud Lick | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Mud Lick Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Roof Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Sandy Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Selcer Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Star Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Totten Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Wildcat Branch | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Alec Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Burgess Creek | 1.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Charles Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Georges Swamp Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hannah Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Ivy Patch Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Panther Den Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Pickles Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Poplar Spring Branch | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Bullins Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Coon Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Cornett Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Crecy Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Creed Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Golf Course Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Hurricane Creek | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Iron Spring Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Log Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Cove Creek | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Locust Ridge Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Swamp Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | Class III |
| White Oak Branch | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Kidd Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Long Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Maple Spring Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Rocky Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Wagner Trace Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| White Rock Branch | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Cold Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Kale Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| McCoglin Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Fork Upper Twin Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Muddy Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Springs Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Robinson Fork | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Shanty Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Straley Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Alder Cabin Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Bond Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Brushy Fork | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| John Gay Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Knot Mole Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Polly Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Steep Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Elder Patch Branch | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Low Place Branch | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Flat Branch | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Hog Rock Branch | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Rich Branch | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
| White Branch | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Hemppatch Branch | 0.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Paint Creek | 0.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Surrat Branch | 0.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Willis Branch | 0.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Saint Branch | 0.5 | untyped | — | — |
The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.
Hunting
This ground is in Virginia's huntable public-land layer as national forest, managed by US Forest Service — 100% of the unit is covered by it. The seasons below are the 2026–2027 small-game seasons as the state's own digest publishes them; they are statewide except where a species is zoned, and the bars run 1 September to 31 August.
Daily bag 6. Virginia requires solid blaze orange or blaze pink — a hat, 360-degree upper-body clothing, or 100 square inches at shoulder level. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt; upland bird hunters are not. Quail is closed on all public land west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and on Flippo-Gentry WMA in Sussex County until further notice. That is a rule about the parcel you are standing on, not about a line on this map, and this app cannot draw it — check the ownership of the ground before you hunt quail in the mountains.
Virginia requires solid blaze orange or blaze pink — a hat, 360-degree upper-body clothing, or 100 square inches at shoulder level. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt; upland bird hunters are not. VDWR publishes no daily or seasonal bag limit for pheasant. The null here is that, not an unread digest. Virginia holds no self-sustaining wild pheasant population. What is hunted is released birds on a handful of stocked and licensed shooting preserves, and the season above is the wild-bird season that barely applies.
Daily bag 3, possession 9. Virginia requires solid blaze orange or blaze pink — a hat, 360-degree upper-body clothing, or 100 square inches at shoulder level. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt; upland bird hunters are not. Migratory bird: HIP registration is required in addition to the hunting licence, and it lapses every July 1. Two segments, split around the late-December break. The birds in the second are flight birds moving through on cold fronts, not Virginia's own.
Daily bag 3. Zoned — Virginia publishes this season by zone, and this page does not place this unit in one, so no season bar is drawn. Seasons by zone — West of I-95: 24 Oct – 13 Feb; East of I-95: closed all season. Virginia requires solid blaze orange or blaze pink — a hat, 360-degree upper-body clothing, or 100 square inches at shoulder level. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt; upland bird hunters are not. The I-95 line is not drawn in this app. The dates are for the western zone; which side of the interstate you are on is not answered here. East of I-95 is a continuous closed season — not a gap in this app's data, a closure Virginia has declared. Virginia's grouse are a Blue Ridge and Allegheny bird and the population has been declining for decades. West of I-95 is where the season is; the mountains are where the birds are.
Daily bag 1. Zoned — Virginia publishes this season by zone, and this page does not place this unit in one, so no season bar is drawn. Seasons by zone — Albemarle, Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Greene, Highland, Madison, Page and Rockingham counties: 17 Oct – 30 Oct, 26 Nov – 26 Nov; Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Caroline, Carroll, Clarke, Craig, Culpeper, Dickenson, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Franklin, Giles, Grayson, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lee, Loudoun, Montgomery, Nelson, Northumberland, Prince William, Pulaski, Rappahannock, Richmond, Roanoke, Rockbridge, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Stafford, Washington, Westmoreland, Wise and Wythe counties, plus Camp Peary, Hampton and Newport News: 17 Oct – 30 Oct, 25 Nov – 26 Nov, 30 Nov – 26 Dec, 9 Jan – 23 Jan; Accomack, Amelia, Dinwiddie, Gloucester, Greensville, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Northampton, Powhatan, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex and York counties, plus Suffolk: 17 Oct – 30 Oct, 25 Nov – 26 Nov, 30 Nov – 12 Dec; Amherst, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Floyd, Fluvanna, Frederick, Goochland, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Orange, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, Tazewell and Warren counties: 17 Oct – 30 Oct, 25 Nov – 26 Nov, 30 Nov – 12 Dec, 9 Jan – 23 Jan; Statewide archery: 3 Oct – 13 Nov. Virginia requires solid blaze orange or blaze pink — a hat, 360-degree upper-body clothing, or 100 square inches at shoulder level. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt; upland bird hunters are not. Virginia names the fall turkey zones as county lists rather than as drawn boundaries, and this app does not join them to its geography. Confirm your county against the VDWR table before opening day. Three turkeys per licence year across the fall and spring seasons in any combination, of which at most one may be beardless. That is a yearly total, not a daily or possession limit. Archery runs October 3 to November 13 across the state, on its own dates, in addition to the firearms zones below.
Hunter orange: Every hunter, and anyone accompanying one, must wear a solid blaze orange or blaze pink hat, or solid blaze upper-body clothing visible from 360 degrees, or display at least 100 square inches of solid blaze material at shoulder level, visible from 360 degrees. Waterfowl, dove, field trials and mounted fox hunting are exempt.
Virginia allows Sunday hunting, with two exceptions: not within 200 yards of a house of worship, and not for deer or bear with dogs.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
When to come
The hatch calendar for the Virginia mountains, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out. The seasons above are the other half of this calendar: the water is best before the ground is.
January
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Blue Quill
- Cranefly
- +18 more
June
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Green Sedge
- Light Cahill
- +18 more
August
September
October
November
December
Nothing seasonal on the water.
What makes this unit distinctive
The Jefferson runs 712,459 acres in 163 parts down the southwest spine of Virginia, from Craig and Botetourt counties to the Tennessee line, and it is the single owner of the public ground in the Middle New subbasin. Four hundred and thirty named streams touch it and 199 are VDWR trout water. Craig Creek runs 63.9 miles at Class VI, the South Fork Holston 62.9 at Class II, Potts Creek 48.2 at Class V, Wolf Creek 47.7 at Class III and the Middle Fork Holston 46.7 at Class VI; the Clinch River's 80.7 miles carry no trout designation. It appears on the Upper James, Maury, Middle James-Buffalo and Upper Roanoke watershed pages. PAD-US records it open access.
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the Virginia fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns. The hunting seasons above come from the state's hunting digest, read against the 2026 licence year.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
- Maury
- Middle James-Buffalo
- Middle New
- North Fork Holston
- Powell
- South Fork Holston
- Upper Clinch
- Upper James
- Upper Levisa
- Upper New
- Upper Roanoke
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.
- Kimberling Creek Wilderness 7.7 mi
- Hunting Camp Creek Wilderness 15.4 mi
- New River Trail State Park 19.2 mi
- The Big Survey Wildlife Management Area 21.0 mi
- Garden Mountain Wilderness 22.4 mi
Plan a weekend around it
The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.