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Driftwood Branch Sinnemahoning Creek, Pennsylvania

23 mapped river miles, draining 14 square miles, in the Sinnemahoning Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.3 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 15.6 miles away, at Clarion River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its last water temperature was 144 days ago, on 7 May 2026, 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.

PA DEP has classified 36.3 of the 37 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% of it. The typed water splits 29.5 mi cool, 6.8 mi 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

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

PA DEP classification

PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes and Trout Stocking. 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, 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

6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 80,938 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes, 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

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

• West Creek 20.8 mi · RM 20.5
• Sinnemahoning Portage Creek 14.6 mi · RM 19.5
• Clear Creek 11.6 mi · RM 23.4
• Big Run 10.2 mi · RM 4.8
• North Creek 8.9 mi · RM 22.8
• Dry Run 7.5 mi · RM 4.4
• Johnson Run 6.5 mi · RM 2.1
• Stillhouse Run 3.5 mi · RM 11.8
• Sterling Run 3.3 mi · RM 9.8
• Canoe Run 3.1 mi · RM 16.0
• Tanglefoot Run 2.7 mi · RM 4.2
• John Mason Run 2.4 mi · RM 8.1

Driftwood Branch Sinnemahoning Creek sits in HUC 8 02050202, the Sinnemahoning Creek basin, and drains 14 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 113 NHD reaches carry the name for 36.7 miles in total — more than the 23.4 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.

• West Creek 4.9 mi
• Clear Creek 7.0 mi
• Trout Run 9.6 mi
• Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek 11.3 mi
• Crooked Creek 12.0 mi
• Powers Run 13.6 mi