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Brokenstraw Creek, Pennsylvania
20 mapped river miles, draining 41 square miles, in the Upper Allegheny basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 27.2 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 27.2 miles away, at Allegheny River — 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 20.1–0.0 | 39.4 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 39.4 of the 54 miles NHD carries for this stream — 73% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. 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
- Brokenstraw Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Brokenstraw Creek — access, parking and public land
- Brokenstraw Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
Access
1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Columbus Access (RM 0.1). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 1,556 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 197 | another state agency | 1,552 |
| Columbus Access | another state agency | 4 |
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.
- Brownell Branch 9.2 mi · RM 11.5
- Coffee Creek 7.9 mi · RM 0.0
Brokenstraw Creek sits in HUC 8 05010001, the Upper Allegheny basin, and drains 41 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 100 NHD reaches carry the name for 53.9 miles in total — more than the 20.1 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.