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Brandywine-Christina Watershed, Pennsylvania

994 miles of mapped stream across 755 square miles of drainage in Chester, Delaware counties, in 87 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 232 of those miles as trout water, on 51 streams. The 11 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 67.8 and 76.8°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 02040205 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

994 mi
of mapped stream
2,817 NHD reaches
755 sq mi
drainage area
483,487 acres
67.8–76.8°F
July water temperature at the gauges
11 mainstem gauges, mean 73.2°F
0 ac
public land
0 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 70% of this basin's stream miles (697.2 of 994); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

168.1 of the 697.2 typed miles in this basin — 24% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cool.

Every named stream in the basin

All 87 of them, longest first. 8 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
West Branch Brandywine Creek 33.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
East Branch Brandywine Creek 28.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
White Clay Creek 20.1 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Buck Run 19.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Christina River 17.6 Warm — —
Broad Run 14.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Red Clay Creek 14.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Brandywine Creek 14.3 Warm — —
East Branch White Clay Creek 13.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Beaver Creek 12.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Branch White Clay Creek 11.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Valley Creek 11.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Doe Run 9.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
West Branch Red Clay Creek 9.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mill Creek 9.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Marsh Creek 9.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
West Branch White Clay Creek 8.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Birch Run 7.7 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Pocopson Creek 7.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Pike Creek 6.8 untyped — —
Indian Run 6.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
East Branch Red Clay Creek 6.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
West Branch Christina River 6.2 untyped — —
Radley Run 5.6 Warm — —
Burrows Run 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Run 5.1 untyped — —
Taylor Run 4.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Culbertson Run 4.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Wilson Run 4.3 Warm — —
Shamona Creek 3.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Black Horse Creek 3.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Sucker Run 3.7 Warm — —
Hyde Run 3.7 untyped — —
East Branch Christina River 3.6 Warm — —
Ring Run 3.5 Warm — —
Bennetts Run 3.4 Warm — —
Plum Run 3.4 Warm — —
Lost Trail Creek 3.1 untyped — —
South Brook 3.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Green Valley Creek 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Two Log Run 2.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Harvey Run 2.8 Warm — —
Dennis Run 2.6 Warm — —
Craigs Mill Run 2.6 Warm — —
Brinton Run 2.5 Warm — —
North Branch Indian Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lamborn Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bucktoe Creek 2.2 Cool — Trout Stocking
Lyons Run 2.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Rocky Run 2.1 untyped — —
Station Creek 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Persimmon Run 1.9 untyped — —
Blackhorse Run 1.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Scarlett Run 1.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Trout Run 1.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Egypt Run 1.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Quartz Creek 1.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Wickersham Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Walnut Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Red Fox Run 1.3 untyped — —
Woodcock Rill 1.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Sycamore Run 1.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tannery Run 1.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Agnew Run 1.2 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mason Dixon Run 1.1 Warm — —
Evans Brook 1.1 untyped — —
Barnard Run 1.0 Warm — —
Hurricane Run 1.0 untyped — —
Bogy Run 0.9 untyped — —
Ramsey Run 0.9 untyped — —
Lenni Lenape Run 0.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Brickyard Run 0.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Indian Hannah Run 0.7 Warm — —
Sweet Creek 0.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Laurel Woods Run 0.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Red Tail Run 0.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Chandlers Run 0.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lost Stream 0.6 untyped — —
John Smedley Run 0.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Corundum Run 0.5 untyped — —
Mushroom Run 0.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Carney Run 0.5 untyped — —
Owl Run 0.4 Warm — —
Serpentine Run 0.4 untyped — —
Wood Duck Run 0.4 untyped — —
Feldspar Run 0.3 untyped — —
Muddy Run 0.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

No public land in this basin is joined to the stream network on our map.

Neighbouring watersheds

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