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Raystown Branch Juniata River, Pennsylvania

27 mapped river miles, draining 958 square miles, in the Raystown Branch basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 37.4 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 37.4 miles away, at Cacapon River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

65.7 °F
Cacapon River
37.4 mi away · 128 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:30 am ET
Cool

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 27.0–27.0 1.6 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 3.0 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.6 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 1.8 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 2.5 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.9 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 1.9 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 1.3 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.9 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.1 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.7 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.2 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 2.1 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.6 cold —
RM 27.0–27.0 0.1 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 1.0 cold —
RM 27.0–26.7 14.3 cool —
RM 27.0–27.0 1.5 cold —
RM 26.7–0.0 34.7 cool —
RM 0.0–0.0 6.3 warm —
RM 0.0–0.0 0.1 cool —
RM 0.0–0.0 4.2 warm —
RM 0.0–0.0 0.8 cool —
RM 0.0–0.0 5.4 warm —
RM 0.0–0.0 0.8 cool —
RM 0.0–0.0 21.0 warm —
RM 0.0–0.0 9.7 cool —
RM 0.0–0.0 0.6 warm —
RM 0.0–0.0 11.9 cool —

PA DEP has classified 130.6 of the 131 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 82.7 mi cool, 37.5 mi warm, 10.4 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, Trout Stocking, 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, Trout Stocking, Warm Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

Access

1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Breezewood Access (RM 4.5). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.

Public land on the river

2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 10 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Lutzville Cliffs Natural Area land trust or conservancy 8
Breezewood Access another state agency 1

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

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

Raystown Branch Juniata River sits in HUC 8 02050303, the Raystown Branch basin, and drains 958 square miles, Strahler order 6 at the mouth. 363 NHD reaches carry the name for 130.6 miles in total — more than the 27.0 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.