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West Branch Little Neshannock Creek, Pennsylvania
11.3 mapped river miles, draining 17 square miles, in the Shenango River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 10.8 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 10.8 miles away, at Shenango River Near West New Castle, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
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 11.3–0.0 | 11.2 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 11.2 of the 11.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 96% 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
- West Branch Little Neshannock Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- West Branch Little Neshannock Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
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.
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
West Branch Little Neshannock Creek sits in HUC 8 05030102, the Shenango River basin, and drains 17 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 29 NHD reaches carry the name for 11.7 miles in total — more than the 11.3 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.