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LeBoeuf Creek, Pennsylvania

18.7 mapped river miles, draining 50 square miles, in the French Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.4 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 12.4 miles away, at French Creek At Cambridge Springs, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

59.9 °F
French Creek At Cambridge Springs, Pa
12.4 mi away · read 30 Sep, 9 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 18.7–0.0 18.8 cool —

PA DEP has classified 18.8 of the 18.9 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

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

4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 2,137 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
State Game Land 109 another state agency 1,970
Smith Tract land trust or conservancy 45
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Easement #089 another state agency 100
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Easement #091 another state agency 22

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.

LeBoeuf Creek sits in HUC 8 05010004, the French Creek basin, and drains 50 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 60 NHD reaches carry the name for 18.9 miles in total — more than the 18.7 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.