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Young Womans Creek, Pennsylvania
11.3 mapped river miles, draining 84 square miles, in the Middle West Branch Susquehanna basin watershed. 1 USGS gauge report water temperature on it, and this page reads 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.
Water temperature right now
Live from the USGS — every pill above is live, so the numbers you are reading are the latest continuous readings at each gauge. Provisional and unreviewed, as all real-time data is. If that fetch cannot happen — you are offline, or the USGS is down — the pills fall back to the last value we cached, 30 September 2026, 14:04 UTC. None of them, in fact: Renovo, Pa is not reporting water temperature — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 25 June 2025. That pill carries a modelled temperature where one can be fitted, marked as modelled, and a dash where it cannot — never a stale reading dressed as a current one.
Thermal classification
Each gauge carries a July mean built from its own daily record — 6 Julys, 2019–2024, measured rather than modelled. A July mean is what decides which of the four bands a stretch of water belongs to, because July is when a trout river either holds or does not.
| Reach | July mean | Band | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Renovo, Pa RM 11.3–0.5 |
65.3 °F | cool | moderate |
Every gauge sits at the bottom of its segment, so each number is the warm end and the water above it runs colder. ±2.48 °F on the fit.
Questions about this river
- Young Womans Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Young Womans Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Young Womans Creek — access, parking and public land
- Young Womans Creek 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.
Fishable reaches
River miles are measured above the mouth, along the mapped mainstem. The reach breaks are the gauges, which is also how the temperature model divides the river.
| Reach | Miles | July mean | Access on it |
|---|---|---|---|
|
RM 11.3–0.5 down to Renovo, Pa |
10.8 | 65.3 °F | — |
0 mapped access sites on the mainstem: 0 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
USGS gauges
Every gauge on the mainstem, upstream first. Links go to the USGS monitoring-location page for the site.
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Young Womans Creek near Renovo, Pa
— 01545600 · RM 0.5
181 July days of record across 6 Julys (2019–2024) · 21 cfs at last read
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 523,091 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Sproul State Forest | another state agency | 286,066 |
| Susquehannock State Forest | another state agency | 237,025 |
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.
Historical July mean
The measured record behind every temperature band on this page: the mean of the daily means for July, at each gauge, over the years USGS has one.
| Gauge | July mean | July range | Julys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renovo, Pa | 65.3 °F | 14.4 °F | 6 |
Tributaries and watershed
10 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Left Branch Young Womans Creek 12.0 mi · RM 2.3
- Lebo Run 5.7 mi · RM 10.4
- County Line Branch 4.8 mi · RM 11.3
- Laurelly Fork 3.5 mi · RM 4.2
- Summerson Run 3.1 mi · RM 5.5
- Baldwin Branch 3.0 mi · RM 11.3
- Bull Run 3.0 mi · RM 7.7
- McCraney Run 1.6 mi · RM 7.3
- Shaney Brook 1.6 mi · RM 4.3
- Laurel Fork 1.6 mi · RM 9.4
Young Womans Creek sits in HUC 8 02050203, the Middle West Branch Susquehanna basin, and drains 84 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 31 NHD reaches carry the name for 11.4 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.