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Shenango River Watershed, Pennsylvania
1,916 miles of mapped stream across 1,067 square miles of drainage in Mercer, Crawford, Lawrence counties, in 62 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 262 of those miles as trout water, on 31 streams. The 2 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 74.5 and 76.3°F in July.
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 05030102 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 85% of this basin's stream miles (1620.1 of 1,916); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 1.1 mi (0%)
- Cool 755.3 mi (47%)
- Warm 863.7 mi (53%)
1.1 of the 1620.1 typed miles in this basin — 0% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is warm.
Every named stream in the basin
All 62 of them, longest first. 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenango River | 86.3 | Warm | — | Trout Stocking |
| Neshannock Creek | 47.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Shenango River | 30.0 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Big Run | 28.4 | Warm | — | — |
| Pymatuning Creek | 20.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Little Yankee Run | 14.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Cool Spring Creek | 14.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Mill Creek | 14.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Neshannock Creek | 14.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Erie Extension Canal | 14.1 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Magargee Run | 11.8 | Warm | — | — |
| West Branch Little Neshannock Creek | 11.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Crooked Creek | 10.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Pine Run | 10.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Paden Creek | 10.2 | Warm | — | — |
| Mill Run | 8.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Hottenbaugh Run | 8.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Gravel Run | 8.4 | untyped | — | — |
| McCullough Run | 8.0 | Warm | — | — |
| Linesville Creek | 7.2 | Warm | — | — |
| Lackawannock Creek | 7.1 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Little Deer Creek | 7.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Black Creek | 6.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Booth Run | 6.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Sugar Run | 6.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Deer Creek | 6.6 | Warm | — | — |
| Yellow Creek | 6.5 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| McMichael Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Hogback Run | 6.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Bennett Run | 5.8 | Warm | — | — |
| Fox Run | 5.8 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Mathay Run | 5.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Brush Run | 5.5 | Warm | — | — |
| Lawango Run | 5.4 | Warm | — | — |
| Indian Run | 5.4 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Bluff Run | 5.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Chestnut Run | 5.3 | Warm | — | — |
| Golden Run | 5.2 | Warm | — | — |
| McDowell Run | 4.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Morrison Run | 4.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Buchanan Run | 4.6 | Warm | — | — |
| Randolph Run | 4.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Daley Run | 4.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Hunters Run | 4.1 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Turkey Run | 4.0 | Warm | — | — |
| Munnell Run | 3.8 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Potter Run | 3.8 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Harthegig Run | 3.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Bobby Run | 3.7 | Warm | — | — |
| Pine Hollow Run | 3.6 | Warm | — | — |
| Kents Run | 3.6 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Mud Run | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Unger Run | 3.4 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Saul Run | 3.1 | Warm | — | — |
| Beaver Run | 2.7 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Calvin Clark Run | 2.5 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Jackson Run | 2.4 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Patton Run | 2.4 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Minis Hollow Run | 2.3 | Cool | — | Trout Stocking |
| Thornton Run | 1.4 | Warm | — | — |
| Yankee Run | 0.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Stratton Creek | 0.0 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
0 acres in 5 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGC | 0 | 0% | 5 |
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.