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Little Sandy Creek, West Virginia
12.6 mapped river miles, draining 29 square miles, in the Cheat basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 10.6 miles away, and it is the only temperature evidence on this page — what WV DEP publishes is the Category B-2 trout water designation below — WV DEP's finding under 47 CSR 2 that a stream sustains a year-round trout population, which is a statement about the fishery rather than about the temperature it runs at.
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 10.6 miles away, at Cheat River At Albright, Wv — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The pills above go to USGS. These are this site's pages for the same gauges — a thirty-day chart, the monthly means, the record, and today's reading against the five-year normal for today: 03070260.
Thermal classification
There isn't one. WV DEP publishes no temperature classification for any water in West Virginia. What it publishes is the Category B-2 trout water designation below — WV DEP's finding under 47 CSR 2 that a stream sustains a year-round trout population, which is a statement about the fishery rather than about the temperature it runs at — so this river draws grey on the map above, and grey here means unmeasured rather than warm. The only temperature on this page is the live reading from the nearest USGS gauge, 10.6 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Little Sandy Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Little Sandy Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
WV DEP classification
WV DEP classifies this water as Trout waters — whole assessment unit. 47 CSR 2 defines trout waters as water that sustains a year-round trout population, and excludes by name water stocked every year that does not hold trout over — so this is a finding about a wild or holdover fishery rather than about the stocking truck. It is not the season and creel rules — those are WVDNR's, change yearly, and live with that agency.
WV DEP water quality standards, 47 CSR 2 →
Species
WV DEP designates this as trout water — Trout waters — whole assessment unit — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
8 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Beaver Creek 25.2 mi · RM 6.0
- Mill Run 24.3 mi · RM 12.6
- Elk Run 6.7 mi · RM 11.4
- Hog Run 6.0 mi · RM 11.0
- Barnes Run 4.8 mi · RM 6.9
- Cherry Run 4.6 mi · RM 12.6
- Webster Run 3.1 mi · RM 2.5
- Piney Run 2.1 mi · RM 12.4
Little Sandy Creek sits in HUC 8 05020004, the Cheat basin, and drains 29 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 13 NHD reaches carry the name for 12.7 miles in total — more than the 12.6 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.