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Beaver Run, Pennsylvania
8.0 mapped river miles, draining 13 square miles, in the Lower West Branch Susquehanna basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.4 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 11.4 miles away, at Susquehanna River At Danville, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
Thermal classification
PA DEP's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | PA DEP type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 8.0–0.0 | 11.8 | cold | — |
| RM 0.0–0.0 | 10.6 | warm | — |
PA DEP has classified 22.4 of the 22 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 11.8 mi cold, 10.6 mi warm. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water PA DEP's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Beaver Run fishing report — what it reads right now
- Beaver Run fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes and Warm Water Fishes. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes, Warm Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Little Muncy Creek 24.6 mi · RM 0.0
- Marsh Run 7.4 mi · RM 2.4
Beaver Run sits in HUC 8 02050206, the Lower West Branch Susquehanna basin, and drains 13 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 50 NHD reaches carry the name for 22.5 miles in total — more than the 8.0 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.