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Bald Eagle River Watershed, Pennsylvania

1,292 miles of mapped stream across 773 square miles of drainage in Centre, Clinton counties, in 96 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 481 of those miles as trout water, on 80 streams. The 1 mainstem gauge with a July record read 57.9°F in July.

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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 every stream in the basin

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. On this map the colour is PA DEP's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water PA DEP has not typed.

The watershed in numbers

HUC8 02050204 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,292 mi

of mapped stream

2,902 NHD reaches

773 sq mi

drainage area

494,878 acres

57.9°F

July water temperature at the gauges

1 mainstem gauge, mean 57.9°F

0 ac

public land

7 units

Cold, cool and warm water

Pennsylvania publishes no thermal class. What PA DEP publishes is a Chapter 93 designated use — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, Warm Water Fishes and the rest — which names the fishery a stream is protected for. It is the closest any agency here comes to a temperature without being one, and docs/pa-thermal-fit.md is where the distinction is measured rather than asserted. It covers 87% of this basin's stream miles (1130.1 of 1,292); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

Cold 1073.6 mi (95%)
Cool 28.7 mi (3%)
Warm 27.8 mi (2%)

1073.6 of the 1130.1 typed miles in this basin — 95% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 96 of them, longest first. 2 have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is PA DEP's designation of that stream. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream	Miles	Class	Now	Designation
Bald Eagle Creek	56.3	Cool	—	Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Fishing Creek	43.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Beech Creek	27.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Spring Creek	25.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Laurel Run	20.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Marsh Creek	18.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Cedar Run	16.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Little Fishing Creek	16.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Roaring Run	14.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Buffalo Run	14.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
South Fork Beech Creek	13.5	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Wallace Run	12.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Slab Cabin Run	11.8	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Big Run	9.4	untyped	—	—
Nittany Creek	9.4	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Sandy Run	8.8	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Cherry Run	8.7	untyped	—	—
Logan Branch	8.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Little Marsh Creek	8.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
North Fork Beech Creek	7.8	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Long Run	7.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Big Run	7.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Eddy Lick Run	7.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
West Branch Big Run	6.9	untyped	—	—
Bear Run	6.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Wolf Run	6.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Dicks Run	5.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Lick Run	5.5	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Panther Run	5.4	untyped	—	—
Monument Run	5.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Pepper Run	5.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Little Sandy Run	5.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Middle Branch Big Run	5.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Twin Run	5.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Sparrow Run	5.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Bullit Run	5.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Chub Run	4.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Council Run	4.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Hayes Run	4.6	untyped	—	—
Bush Hollow Run	4.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Masden Run	4.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Mackeys Run	4.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Romola Branch	4.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Galbraith Gap Run	4.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Beauty Run	4.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Reese Hollow Run	3.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Dewitt Run	3.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Holt Run	3.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Bull Run	3.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Swamp Branch	3.6	untyped	—	—
Two Rock Run	3.6	untyped	—	—
Mill Creek	3.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Mudlick Run	3.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Bitner Run	3.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Oliver Run	3.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Antis Run	3.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Greens Run	3.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Axe Factory Run	2.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Rock Run	2.8	untyped	—	—
Hunters Run	2.8	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Gap Run	2.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Moose Run	2.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Pennsylvania Canal	2.7	untyped	—	—
Plunket Run	2.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Harveys Run	2.5	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Sugar Run	2.4	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Brower Hollow Run	2.4	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Eastville Run	2.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Salt Lick Run	2.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Three Rock Run	2.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Spring Run	2.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
West Kammerdiner Run	2.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Whetstone Run	2.0	untyped	—	—
North Branch Wallace Run	2.0	untyped	—	—
Stinktown Run	1.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Panther Branch	1.9	untyped	—	—
Black Hawk Gap Run	1.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Little Wolf Run	1.7	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Little Bear Run	1.7	untyped	—	—
Sugar Camp Run	1.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Bartley Run	1.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Potter Brook	1.4	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Spruce Run	1.4	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Jonathan Run	1.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Washburn Run	1.3	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Horsehead Run	1.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Sinking Spring Branch	1.2	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Cooper Run	1.1	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Coon Run	1.0	untyped	—	—
Bear Hollow Run	1.0	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Birch Lick Run	1.0	untyped	—	—
Stone Run	0.9	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Logway Run	0.8	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Contrary Run	0.6	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes
Rock Cabin Run	0.6	untyped	—	—
Thompson Run	0.5	Cold	—	Cold Water Fishes

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 7 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency	Acres	Share	Units
PGC	0	0%	7

The biggest named blocks of it, each with its own page — the streams on that ground, what is open to hunt on it, and where the access sites are.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.