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Upper Genesee River Watershed, Pennsylvania

306 miles of mapped stream across 1,425 square miles of drainage in Potter county, in 9 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 31 of those miles as trout water, on 6 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 04130002 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

306 mi
of mapped stream
790 NHD reaches
1,425 sq mi
drainage area
912,298 acres
0 ac
public land
0 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 68% of this basin's stream miles (208.4 of 306); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

208.4 of the 208.4 typed miles in this basin — 100% — are cold or cold-transitional water. Every typed reach carries the same class, which is as likely to be the coverage as the water: PA DEP has typed 68% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 9 of them, longest first. 1 has a page of its own and is 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
Genesee River 20.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Marsh Creek 10.0 untyped — —
Cryder Creek 8.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Spring Mills Creek 5.8 untyped — —
Orebed Creek 5.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wileyville Creek 5.2 untyped — —
Redwater Creek 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rose Brook 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ainsworth Brook 1.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes

Public land in the watershed

No public land in this basin is joined to the stream network on our map.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.