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Red Creek, Virginia

3.5 mapped river miles, draining 3 square miles, in the Holston basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.2 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Virginia DWR'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

58 64 70

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 11.2 miles away, at Brumley Creek Near Hansonville, Va — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

Thermal classification

This is inferred, not measured. Virginia DWR does not publish a temperature classification for this water. What it publishes is a management tier — whether the trout in it are wild, hold over through summer, or are stocked and fished out — and the bands below are read off that tier, because a stream that sustains wild trout is a cold stream and one that does not hold fish past July is not. It is the agency's judgement of the fishery translated into the four bands this site paints everywhere else; it is not a thermometer, and where the two disagree the thermometer is right.

Virginia DWR's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.

Virginia DWR has classified 3.5 of the 3.5 miles NHD carries for this stream — 101% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold-transitional. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water Virginia DWR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.

Questions about this river

• Red Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish Red Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
• How to get to Red Creek — access, parking and public land
• Red Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

Virginia DWR classification

Virginia DWR classifies this water as Class V. The management tier on those reaches is stocked holdover. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

VDWR trout waters and stocking →

Public land on the river

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 24,852 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

Virginia DWR designates this as trout water — Class V — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Hatches on this water

56 insects are recorded from the Virginia mountains, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.

And 42 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.

Tributaries and watershed

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

• Tumbling Creek 10.2 mi · RM 0.0

Red Creek sits in HUC 8 06010101 and 06010102, the Holston basin, and drains 3 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 4 NHD reaches carry the name for 3.5 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.

• Tumbling Creek 1.8 mi
• Laurel Bed Creek 3.9 mi
• Big Cedar Creek 5.2 mi
• Little Tumbling Creek 6.1 mi
• Hall Creek 6.7 mi
• Campbell Creek 7.2 mi