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Sugarcamp Run, Pennsylvania

4.5 mapped river miles, draining 6 square miles, in the Middle Allegheny Redbank basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 3.8 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 3.8 miles away, at Mahoning Creek At Punxsutawney, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

57.7 °F
Mahoning Creek At Punxsutawney, Pa
3.8 mi away · 196 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:45 am ET
Cold

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 4.5–4.5 6.5 cold —
RM 4.5–4.5 2.7 warm —
RM 4.5–0.0 8.4 cold —

PA DEP has classified 17.6 of the 19.5 miles NHD carries for this stream — 90% of it. The typed water splits 14.9 mi cold, 2.7 mi warm. 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 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, Warm Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

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

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Sugarcamp Run sits in HUC 8 05010006, the Middle Allegheny Redbank basin, and drains 6 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 43 NHD reaches carry the name for 19.5 miles in total — more than the 4.5 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.