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Raystown River Watershed, Pennsylvania

2,282 miles of mapped stream across 962 square miles of drainage in Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton, Somerset, Blair counties, in 102 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 366 of those miles as trout water, on 48 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 02050303 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,282 mi
of mapped stream
5,710 NHD reaches
962 sq mi
drainage area
615,809 acres
0 ac
public land
8 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 94% of this basin's stream miles (2149.8 of 2,282); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

576.1 of the 2149.8 typed miles in this basin — 27% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is warm.

Every named stream in the basin

All 102 of them, longest first. 3 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
Raystown Branch Juniata River 130.6 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Great Trough Creek 33.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Brush Creek 32.8 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Dunning Creek 30.0 Warm — —
Cove Creek 22.4 untyped — —
Bobs Creek 22.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Yellow Creek 20.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Trough Creek 14.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Shobers Run 12.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Clear Creek 12.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Shaffer Creek 11.5 Warm — —
Scrubgrass Creek 11.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Shawnee Branch 10.3 Warm — —
Buffalo Run 9.5 Warm — —
Tub Mill Run 9.5 Warm — —
Shoup Run 9.4 Warm — —
Beaver Creek 9.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sherman Valley Run 8.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Brush Creek 8.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kegg Run 7.9 Warm — —
Snake Spring Valley Run 7.2 Warm — —
Georges Creek 7.1 Warm — —
Maple Run 6.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
French Run 6.4 Warm — —
Breastwork Run 6.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sandy Run 6.2 Warm — —
Sixmile Run 6.2 Warm — —
Shy Beaver Creek 6.1 Warm — —
Weimer Run 6.0 Warm — —
Chapman Run 6.0 Warm — —
Adams Run 5.9 Warm — —
Hickory Bottom Creek 5.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Potter Creek 5.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Imlertown Run 5.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Three Lick Run 5.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Milk and Water Creek 5.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Pleasant Valley Run 5.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Greys Run 5.5 Warm — —
Tatman Run 5.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
James Creek 5.5 Warm — —
Ryot Run 5.3 Warm — —
Oppenheimer Run 5.3 Warm — —
Longs Run 5.3 Warm — —
Rocklick Creek 5.2 Warm — —
Coffee Run 5.2 Warm — —
Pipers Run 5.1 Warm — —
Hawns Run 5.1 Warm — —
Burns Creek 5.0 Warm — —
Spicer Brook 5.0 Warm — —
Milligan Run 5.0 Warm — —
Laurel Run 4.9 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Negro Hollow Run 4.8 Warm — —
Cumberland Valley Run 4.8 Warm — —
Sugar Creek 4.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Miller Run 4.6 Warm — —
Wallacks Branch 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Swamp Run 4.1 untyped — —
Sulphur Springs Creek 4.0 Warm — —
Ravers Run 3.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Smally Spring Branch 3.6 Warm — —
Three Springs Run 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bentz Run 3.4 Warm — —
West Branch Georges Creek 3.4 Warm — —
Black Valley Creek 3.4 Warm — —
Sugar Camp Run 3.4 Warm — —
Barefoot Run 3.3 Warm — —
East Fork Roaring Run 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Yellow Branch 3.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mud Run 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Stone Creek 3.2 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Brush Run 3.1 Warm — —
West Fork Roaring Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kimber Run 2.9 Warm — —
Johns Branch 2.7 Warm — —
Shores Branch 2.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Pavia Run 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rhodes Run 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dry Run 2.6 Warm — —
Deep Hollow Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Wambaugh Run 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Callihan Creek 2.2 Warm — —
Gordon Creek 2.2 Warm — —
House Run 2.2 Warm — —
Shreves Run 2.2 Warm — —
Sugarcamp Run 2.1 Warm — —
Gander Run 2.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Coal Bank Run 2.0 Warm — —
Roaring Run 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wills Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Diamond Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Barton Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wilson Run 1.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Kennedy Run 1.7 Warm — —
Ciana Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bloody Run 1.4 Warm — —
Bank Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Curfman Run 1.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Spring Run 1.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Bear Run 0.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Raven Run 0.8 Warm — —
Deer Lick Hollow Run 0.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Juniata River 0.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 8 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 8

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.