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Glade Run, Pennsylvania

12.8 mapped river miles, draining 26 square miles, in the Middle Allegheny Redbank basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 13.9 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

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 13.9 miles away, at Crooked Creek At Idaho, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

61.5 °F
Crooked Creek At Idaho, Pa
13.9 mi away · 129 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:30 am ET
Cold-transitional

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 12.8–12.4 0.4 cool —
RM 12.7–10.5 1.4 cold —
RM 12.4–9.6 2.7 cool —
RM 10.5–3.3 3.3 cold —
RM 9.6–3.0 2.9 cool —
RM 3.3–2.9 1.0 cold —
RM 3.0–2.7 0.3 cool —
RM 2.9–2.9 2.2 cold —
RM 2.7–0.0 4.1 cool —

PA DEP has classified 18.3 of the 22 miles NHD carries for this stream — 83% of it. The typed water splits 10.4 mi cool, 7.9 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

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

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 465 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
State Game Land 247 another state agency 465

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

Glade Run sits in HUC 8 05010006, the Middle Allegheny Redbank basin, and drains 26 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 53 NHD reaches carry the name for 22.0 miles in total — more than the 12.8 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.