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Tioga River Watershed, Pennsylvania

1,123 miles of mapped stream across 1,384 square miles of drainage in Tioga, Potter, Bradford counties, in 103 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 325 of those miles as trout water, on 66 streams. The 1 mainstem gauge with a July record read 72.5°F in July.

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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 02050104 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,123 mi
of mapped stream
2,149 NHD reaches
1,384 sq mi
drainage area
885,952 acres
72.5°F
July water temperature at the gauges
1 mainstem gauge, mean 72.5°F
0 ac
public land
2 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 96% of this basin's stream miles (1083.1 of 1,123); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

501.3 of the 1083.1 typed miles in this basin — 46% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 103 of them, longest first. 5 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
Tioga River 46.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cowanesque River 43.3 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Elk Run 28.9 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Crooked Creek 27.9 Warm — —
Mill Creek 26.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Jemison Creek 11.4 Warm — —
North Fork Cowanesque River 11.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Corey Creek 11.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Norris Brook 9.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Holden Creek 8.9 Warm — —
Elkhorn Creek 8.0 Warm — —
Losey Creek 7.9 Warm — —
Hills Creek 7.7 Warm — —
Canoe Camp Creek 7.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mutton Lane Creek 6.9 Warm — —
Cummings Creek 6.8 Warm — —
Fall Brook 6.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Morris Run 6.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Thornbottom Creek 6.4 Warm — —
Fellows Creek 6.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
North Elk Run 6.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Troups Creek 6.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Camp Brook 6.0 Warm — —
Bear Creek 5.9 Warm — Trout Stocking
Bailey Creek 5.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mitchell Creek 5.7 Warm — —
North Branch Cowanesque River 5.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Harts Creek 5.4 Warm — —
North Brook 5.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
California Brook 5.3 Warm — —
Lambs Creek 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blair Creek 4.7 Warm — —
Dodge Hollow Run 4.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Painter Run 4.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Marsh Creek 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Potter Brook 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Purple Brook 4.4 Warm — —
Strait Creek 4.4 Warm — —
Marvin Creek 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Johnson Creek 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bill Hess Creek 4.2 Warm — —
Stephenhouse Run 4.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
White Branch 4.0 Warm — —
Smith Creek 4.0 Warm — —
North Run 3.9 Warm — —
Rundall Creek 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Yarnell Brook 3.7 Warm — —
Webier Creek 3.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Taylor Run 3.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Creek Tioga River 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tan Creek 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bulkley Brook 3.4 untyped — —
Sawmill Creek 3.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mad Run 3.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Crance Brook 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Baldwin Creek 3.3 Warm — —
Bellman Run 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Manns Creek 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Carpenter Run 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bentley Creek 3.2 Warm — —
Gaffers Creek 3.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Boatman Brook 3.1 Warm — —
Rathbone Creek 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Steamtown Creek 3.0 untyped — —
Boone Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Windfall Brook 2.8 Warm — —
Wilson Creek 2.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ives Run 2.7 Warm — —
Moore Hollow Run 2.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cabin Run 2.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Coon Creek 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Slate Creek 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crawford Run 2.4 Warm — —
South Creek 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Coal Creek 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Steam Mill Creek 2.4 Warm — —
Big Rift Creek 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Shanty Creek 2.2 Warm — —
Bulkley Creek 2.1 Warm — —
Long Run 2.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ellen Run 2.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Hibbards Run 1.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Crippen Run 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crotch Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Redhouse Run 1.8 Warm — —
Mapes Creek 1.8 Warm — —
West Branch Painter Run 1.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Cook Creek 1.7 Warm — —
South Brook Troups Creek 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Christie Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bear Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Elklick Run 1.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Phoenix Run 1.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Kelly Creek 1.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Brown Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dibble Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Daily Creek 1.3 Warm — —
Hemlock Flats Run 1.2 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mills Creek 1.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Smith Run 0.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Flower Run 0.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Closes Creek 0.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Gulf Run 0.6 Warm — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 2 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 2

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.