BirdTrout
Lower Allegheny River Watershed, Pennsylvania
971 miles of mapped stream across 495 square miles of drainage, in 72 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 281 of those miles as trout water, on 41 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 05010009 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 97% of this basin's stream miles (937.5 of 971); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 183.1 mi (20%)
- Cool 567.9 mi (61%)
- Warm 186.5 mi (20%)
183.1 of the 937.5 typed miles in this basin — 20% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cool.
Every named stream in the basin
All 72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Creek | 38.7 | Cool | — | Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking |
| Allegheny River | 31.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Pine Creek | 24.6 | Cool | — | Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking |
| Deer Creek | 20.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Bull Creek | 13.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Pine Creek | 12.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Pucketa Creek | 10.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Plum Creek | 10.6 | Warm | — | — |
| Little Buffalo Creek | 9.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Patterson Creek | 9.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Deer Creek | 8.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Rough Run | 8.5 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Pucketa Creek | 8.5 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Girtys Run | 8.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Little Bull Creek | 8.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Sarver Run | 8.0 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Long Run | 7.6 | Cool | — | Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking |
| Little Buffalo Run | 6.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Lardintown Run | 6.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Chartiers Run | 6.2 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Sycamore Run | 6.2 | Warm | — | — |
| North Fork Pine Creek | 6.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Buffalo Run | 5.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Pine Run | 5.2 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Plum Creek | 5.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Montour Run | 5.0 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Willow Run | 4.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Rocky Run | 4.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Dawson Run | 4.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Cornplanter Run | 4.2 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Crouse Run | 4.2 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| West Branch Deer Creek | 4.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| McDowell Run | 3.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Bailey Run | 3.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Cedar Run | 3.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| North Branch Rough Run | 3.2 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Tawney Run | 3.2 | Warm | — | — |
| Gourdhead Run | 2.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Days Run | 2.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Wexford Run | 2.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Cunningham Run | 2.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Riddle Run | 2.8 | Warm | — | — |
| Glade Run | 2.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Sandy Creek | 2.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Rinaman Run | 2.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Fish Run | 2.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Bodies Run | 2.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Blue Run | 2.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Guyasuta Run | 2.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Rawlins Run | 2.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Crawford Run | 2.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Guys Run | 2.1 | Warm | — | — |
| McCaskin Run | 2.0 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Marrowbone Run | 1.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Shafers Run | 1.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Sipes Run | 1.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Stony Camp Run | 1.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Powers Run | 1.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Nelson Run | 1.6 | Warm | — | — |
| Campbell Run | 1.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Blacks Run | 1.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Indian Creek | 1.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Rachel Carson Run | 1.2 | Warm | — | — |
| Yutes Run | 1.2 | Warm | — | — |
| Shades Run | 1.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Bethel Run | 0.9 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Clarks Run | 0.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Quigley Creek | 0.8 | Warm | — | — |
| Falling Springs Run | 0.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Kiskiminetas River | 0.4 | untyped | — | — |
| McKnight Run | 0.4 | Warm | — | — |
| Big Run | 0.1 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
0 acres in 3 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGC | 0 | 0% | 3 |
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.