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Potomac Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia

148,611 acres of public ground, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service. 85 named streams run through it, of which 67 are designated trout water — 389.2 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.

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This unit — the ground this page is about
Other public land — state, federal and county ground around it
USGS gauge — a gauge, coloured by what it reads now
Water temperature — the colour of every stream on this ground

50°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 nothing at all: WV DEP publishes no thermal classification, so every stream on this map draws grey. The gauge dots are the one exception and they read live. Grey is every stream here, for the reason above.

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.

148,611 ac
public ground
232.2 square miles · 23 separate blocks
WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service
managing agency
National forest wildlife management area
85
named streams on it
533.5 miles · 67 designated trout
Access not recorded
public access
as recorded in the ownership file

Getting on it

PAD-US carries no access class for this unit. It is in the state's huntable layer, which is why it is here; what else you may do on it is the managing agency's to say.

This unit is 23 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.

Trout streams on this ground

Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 52 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is WV DEP'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
South Branch Potomac River 52.7 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Dry Fork 39.7 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
North Fork South Branch Potomac River 39.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Run 24.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Red Creek 21.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Mill Run 21.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Seneca Creek 20.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Run 16.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Reeds Creek 15.7 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Long Run 15.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Dry Run 15.2 untyped — —
Gandy Creek 14.8 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Brushy Run 13.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Broad Run 12.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Spruce Run 12.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Friends Run 8.4 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Sawmill Branch 7.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Stonecoal Run 7.0 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Jordan Run 6.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Roaring Creek 6.1 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Laurel Run 5.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
South Fork Red Creek 5.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Peters Run 5.1 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Big Star Run 4.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Briggs Run 4.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Left Fork Red Creek 4.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Horsecamp Run 4.0 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Elk Run 3.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Whites Run 3.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Taylor Run 3.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Zeke Run 3.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Teeter Camp Run 3.7 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Twin Run 3.7 untyped — —
Blizzard Run 3.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Back Run 3.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Redman Run 3.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Briery Gap Run 3.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Shafter Run 3.2 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Gravel Lick Run 2.9 untyped — —
Moyer Run 2.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Powdermill Run 2.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Red Lick Run 2.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Samuel Run 2.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Bouses Run 2.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Grants Branch 2.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
High Ridge Run 2.7 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Upper Gulf Run 2.7 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Sawmill Run 2.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Strader Run 2.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Yoakum Run 2.6 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Narrow Ridge 2.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Upper Two Spring Run 2.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Alder Run 2.4 untyped — —
Elklick Run 2.3 untyped — —
Gandy Run 2.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Lower Two Spring Run 2.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Fisher Spring Run 2.2 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
McIntosh Run 2.2 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Warner Run 2.2 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Cold Spring Run 2.1 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Flatrock Run 2.0 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Shuckleford Run 2.0 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Hemlock Run 1.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Swallow Rock Run 1.8 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Collins Run 1.7 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Stone Camp Run 1.6 untyped — —
Tool Run 1.6 untyped — —
Lower Gulf Run 1.5 untyped — —
North Fork Long Run 1.5 untyped — —
Wamsley Run 1.5 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Gulf Run 1.4 untyped — —
Little Stonecoal Run 1.3 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Devers Run 1.2 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Bee Run 1.1 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Elza Run 1.0 untyped — —
Falls Run 0.9 untyped — Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Left Fork Flatrock Creek 0.9 untyped — —
Right Fork Flatrock Creek 0.9 untyped — —
Slab Camp Run 0.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
South Fork Long Run 0.8 untyped — —
Tom Lick Run 0.8 untyped — —
Beech Run 0.7 untyped — —
Nans Branch 0.7 untyped — —
Smith Run 0.6 untyped — —
Trussel Run 0.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit

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 West Virginia's huntable public-land layer as national forest wildlife management area, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service — 100% of the unit is covered by it. This app does not carry West Virginia's season dates yet, so there are none printed below — WVDNR publishes them, and that digest is what to check before you go. That the ground is huntable and that a season is open on it are two different facts, and only the first one is on this page.

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.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nothing seasonal on the water.

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 West Virginia fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.

Watersheds it lies in

The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.

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.