BirdTrout
French Creek Watershed, Pennsylvania
828 miles of mapped stream across 1,237 square miles of drainage, in 97 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 443 of those miles as trout water, on 51 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 05010004 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 0% of this basin's stream miles (0.0 of 828); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
No reach in this subbasin carries a Chapter 93 use this page can read, so it has no cold/cool/warm breakdown for it. Pennsylvania does have a fitted thermal model — see docs/pa-thermal-fit.md — and it is the classification that is absent here rather than the state's ability to make one.
Every named stream in the basin
All 97 of them, longest first. 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Creek | 97.3 | untyped | 69.3°F | — |
| Cussewago Creek | 37.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Sugar Creek | 34.0 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch French Creek | 33.0 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch French Creek | 27.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Muddy Creek | 25.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Sugar Creek | 23.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Woodcock Creek | 22.2 | untyped | 64.4°F | — |
| LeBoeuf Creek | 18.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Lake Creek | 18.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Conneauttee Creek | 17.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Conneaut Outlet | 17.2 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch Sugar Creek | 16.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Conneauttee Creek | 14.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Creek | 13.2 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch LeBoeuf Creek | 12.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Watson Run | 12.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Run | 11.1 | untyped | — | — |
| North Deer Creek | 10.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Prather Creek | 9.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Trout Run | 9.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Carr Run | 8.7 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch Muddy Creek | 8.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Run | 8.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Van Horne Creek | 7.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Beatty Run | 7.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Warden Run | 7.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Federal Run | 7.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Boles Run | 7.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Run | 7.2 | untyped | — | — |
| McMichael Run | 7.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Rundelltown Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Mackey Run | 6.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Inlet Run | 6.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Torry Run | 6.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Kelly Run | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Mud Run | 6.2 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Sugar Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Baskin Run | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Darrow Brook | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Gravel Run | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Mohawk Run | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Cussewago Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Deckard Run | 5.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Meadow Brook | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Federal Run | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| McCune Run | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Bailey Brook | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Navy Run | 5.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Run | 5.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Hubbel Run | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Slaughter Run | 5.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Horton Run | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Alder Run | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Adsit Run | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Shenango Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Rock Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Townley Run | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cutting Brook | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bossard Run | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Lilley Run | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Powdermill Run | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Alder Brook | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wheeler Creek | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Bentley Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Darrows Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Dead Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Spencer Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Herrick Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Dry Run | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Hungry Run | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Lake Pleasant Outlet | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Brawley Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Foster Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Patchel Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Black Brook | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Temple Run | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Benson Run | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Campbell Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Potash Run | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Run | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Barber Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Williams Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Foulk Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Bennyhoof Creek | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Spa Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Kerns Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Brookhouser Creek | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Run | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| McCauley Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cemetery Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Dillinger Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Spaid Run | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Erie Extension Canal | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Dick Run | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Spring Run | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Honey Bee Creek | 0.6 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
64,544 acres in 203 units, which is 8.2% of the 791,655 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another state agency | 38,943 | 60% | 49 |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 9,024 | 14% | 1 |
| Land trust or conservancy | 5,602 | 9% | 49 |
| County land | 3,997 | 6% | 45 |
| Designation overlay | 2,919 | 5% | 2 |
| PVT | 1,610 | 2% | 17 |
| State fish and wildlife agency | 1,393 | 2% | 5 |
| City and township land | 604 | 1% | 34 |
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.