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Brush Creek, Pennsylvania

21 mapped river miles, draining 21 square miles, in the Lower Monongahela basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 9.9 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish

USGS gauge — live water temperature

Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

58 64 70

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 9.9 miles away, at Youghiogheny River At Sutersville, 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.

PA DEP has classified 21.6 of the 22 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cool. 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

• Brush Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to Brush Creek — access, parking and public land
• Brush Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

PA DEP classification

PA DEP classifies this water as Trout Stocking. The management tier on those reaches is Trout Stocking. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

Public land on the river

10 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 292 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

PA DEP designates this as trout water — Trout Stocking — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Tributaries and watershed

3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• Bushy Run 6.6 mi · RM 11.5
• Coal Run 5.3 mi · RM 8.9
• Tinkers Run 1.8 mi · RM 8.6

Brush Creek sits in HUC 8 05020005, the Lower Monongahela basin, and drains 21 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 37 NHD reaches carry the name for 21.6 miles in total — more than the 21.1 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.

• Little Sewickley Creek 2.6 mi
• Long Run 5.3 mi
• Sewickley Creek 5.9 mi
• Cedar Creek 10.0 mi
• Turtle Creek 10.4 mi
• Jacks Run 10.9 mi