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Kinzua Creek, Pennsylvania
15.8 mapped river miles, draining 28 square miles, in the Upper Allegheny basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.5 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 14.0 miles away, at West Branch Clarion River At Wilcox, Pa — 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.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | PA DEP type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 15.8–0.0 | 25.9 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 25.9 of the 38 miles NHD carries for this stream — 68% 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
- Kinzua Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Kinzua Creek — access, parking and public land
- Kinzua 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.
Public land on the river
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 584,743 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 062 | another state agency | 9,186 |
| Allegheny National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 575,241 |
| Kinzua Bridge State Park | another state agency | 315 |
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
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Threemile Run 5.9 mi · RM 8.1
- Pine Run 3.5 mi · RM 6.2
- Little Black Brook 1.9 mi · RM 11.8
- Town Line Run 1.8 mi · RM 4.2
Kinzua Creek sits in HUC 8 05010001, the Upper Allegheny basin, and drains 28 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 111 NHD reaches carry the name for 37.9 miles in total — more than the 15.8 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.