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West Branch Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania
16.1 mapped river miles, draining 6,980 square miles, in the Lower West Branch Susquehanna basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 21.1 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 21.1 miles away, at Pine Creek (Pine Creek Gorge) — 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 16.0–0.0 | 63.4 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 63.4 of the 64 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% 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
- West Branch Susquehanna River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the West Branch Susquehanna River — access, parking and public land
- West Branch Susquehanna River 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.
Access
1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Linden Access (RM 2.8). 0 walk-in, 1 boat or canoe launches.
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
10 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Larrys Creek 23.2 mi · RM 10.8
- Big Run 19.9 mi · RM 6.6
- Pine Run 12.5 mi · RM 5.6
- Daugherty Run 8.2 mi · RM 0.8
- Quenshukeny Run 6.4 mi · RM 4.2
- Antes Creek 5.1 mi · RM 14.0
- Bender Run 3.8 mi · RM 2.9
- Stewards Run 2.5 mi · RM 11.2
- Aughanbaugh Run 1.6 mi · RM 15.8
- Pine Creek 0.1 mi · RM 16.0
West Branch Susquehanna River sits in HUC 8 02050206, the Lower West Branch Susquehanna basin, and drains 6,980 square miles, Strahler order 7 at the mouth. 127 NHD reaches carry the name for 63.5 miles in total — more than the 16.1 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.