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Cacapon-Town Watershed, Pennsylvania

661 miles of mapped stream across 1,205 square miles of drainage in Bedford, Fulton counties, in 40 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 84 of those miles as trout water, on 20 streams.

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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 02070003 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

661 mi
of mapped stream
1,511 NHD reaches
1,205 sq mi
drainage area
771,029 acres
0 ac
public land
2 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 39% of this basin's stream miles (256.9 of 661); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

213.7 of the 256.9 typed miles in this basin — 83% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 40 of them, longest first. 1 has a page of its own and is 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
Sideling Hill Creek 25.7 untyped — —
Town Creek 18.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Sideling Hill Creek 13.2 untyped — —
Flintstone Creek 11.6 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Fifteenmile Creek 11.6 Warm — —
West Branch Sideling Hill Creek 10.7 untyped — —
Piney Creek 10.4 untyped — —
Bear Creek 9.0 untyped — —
Elk Lick Creek 8.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sweet Root Creek 6.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bushy Fork 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Black Valley Branch 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wilson Run 5.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crooked Run 5.0 untyped — —
Bear Camp Branch 4.6 Warm — —
Trough Run 4.1 untyped — —
Black Sulphur Run 4.0 untyped — —
Lost Run 3.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
White Sulphur Run 3.4 untyped — —
Wildcat Run 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Georgetown Branch 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pond Branch 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pigeonroost Run 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Amorine Branch 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bear Gap Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sweet Root Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Johnson Branch 2.8 untyped — —
Blues Gap Run 2.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Laurel Branch 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 2.2 untyped — —
Big Divide Run 2.1 untyped — —
Piclic Run 2.1 untyped — —
Blackberry Lick Run 2.1 untyped — —
Stahle Run 1.9 untyped — —
Little Pigeonroost Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Line Run 1.4 Warm — —
Twigg Hollow Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Bear Gap Run 1.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Murley Branch 1.1 untyped — —
Tewell Run 1.0 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 2 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 2

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.