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Brush Run, Pennsylvania
8.9 mapped river miles, draining 16 square miles, in the Upper Ohio basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 4.0 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 16.3 miles away, at Connoquenessing Creek Near Zelienople, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — USGS carries no water-temperature series for it at all, so no number here comes from it.
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 8.9–8.8 | 1.0 | warm | — |
| RM 8.9–8.5 | 0.5 | cold | — |
| RM 8.8–8.8 | 3.9 | warm | — |
| RM 8.5–0.0 | 8.5 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 13.9 of the 13.9 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 9.0 mi cold, 4.9 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
- Brush Run fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Brush Run — access, parking and public land
- Brush 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.
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 28 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| South Beaver Township Community Park & Ballfield | city land | 22 |
| South Beaver Township Community Park And Ballfield | county land | 6 |
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
1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
Brush Run sits in HUC 8 05030101, the Upper Ohio basin, and drains 16 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 27 NHD reaches carry the name for 13.9 miles in total — more than the 8.9 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.