BirdTrout
Cheat River Watershed, Pennsylvania
416 miles of mapped stream across 1,422 square miles of drainage in Fayette county, in 35 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 84 of those miles as trout water, on 16 streams.
Open in BirdTrout50°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 05020004 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.
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 48% of this basin's stream miles (201.7 of 416); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 185.2 mi (92%)
- Warm 16.5 mi (8%)
185.2 of the 201.7 typed miles in this basin — 92% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.
Every named stream in the basin
All 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sandy Creek | 31.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Cheat River | 16.8 | Warm | — | — |
| Little Sandy Creek | 15.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Laurel Run | 14.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Glade Run | 10.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Rubles Run | 7.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Fike Run | 7.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Mill Run | 6.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Stony Fork | 6.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Hazel Run | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Morgan Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Patterson Run | 5.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Grassy Run | 5.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Sovern Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Quarry Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| McIntire Run | 4.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Chaney Run | 4.2 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Laurel Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Quebec Run | 4.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Tebolt Run | 3.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Parker Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Clay Run | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Whites Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Long Run | 2.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Coles Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Joe Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kelly Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Scotts Run | 1.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Braddock Run | 1.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Lick Run | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Crammeys Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Laurel Creek | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Piney Run | 1.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Maple Run | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Buzzard Run | 1.0 | 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.