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Upper Juniata River Watershed, Pennsylvania

1,842 miles of mapped stream across 991 square miles of drainage in Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Bedford, Cambria counties, in 115 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 524 of those miles as trout water, on 81 streams.

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Map key
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 02050302 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,842 mi
of mapped stream
4,086 NHD reaches
991 sq mi
drainage area
634,163 acres
0 ac
public land
13 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 98% of this basin's stream miles (1797.1 of 1,842); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1016.9 of the 1797.1 typed miles in this basin — 57% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 115 of them, longest first. 6 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
Frankstown Branch Juniata River 48.6 Warm — Trout Stocking
Standing Stone Creek 35.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Juniata River 34.5 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Clover Creek 24.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Shaver Creek 20.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Spruce Creek 17.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Warriors Mark Run 14.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Laurel Run 14.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Sinking Run 14.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Halfmoon Creek 14.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Piney Creek 13.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Standing Stone Creek 13.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crooked Creek 11.5 Warm — —
Canoe Creek 11.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Juniata River 11.4 Warm — —
Sugar Run 10.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Poplar Run 10.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Beaver Branch 10.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bald Eagle Creek 10.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Blair Gap Run 9.9 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Halter Creek 9.7 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Robinson Run 9.4 Warm — —
Tipton Run 9.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Beaverdam Creek 9.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mill Run 8.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Plum Creek 8.6 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Brush Run 8.4 Warm — —
South Poplar Run 7.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bells Gap Run 7.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Garner Run 7.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Big Fill Run 7.5 untyped — —
Dry Run 7.3 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Globe Run 7.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Oldtown Run 7.0 Warm — —
Greenlee Run 6.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Murray Run 6.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Beaverdam Branch 6.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Spring Run 6.1 Warm — —
Sink Run 6.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Vanscoyoc Run 5.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Elk Run 5.6 Warm — —
Homer Gap Run 5.4 Warm — —
Riggles Gap Run 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Polecat Run 5.0 Warm — —
Sandy Run 4.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
South Dry Run 4.7 Warm — —
Glenwhite Run 4.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Tubb Run 4.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Black Lick Run 4.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
New Creek 4.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Logan Spring Run 4.5 Warm — —
Detweiler Run 4.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Smoky Run 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Roaring Run 4.4 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Decker Run 4.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
McLain Run 4.2 Warm — —
Blue Knob Run 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gillans Run 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kittanning Run 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Spencer Run 4.1 Warm — —
Yellow Spring Run 4.1 Warm — —
Shaw Run 4.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Kettle Creek 4.1 Warm — —
Hutchinson Run 4.0 Warm — —
Cabbage Creek 3.9 Warm — —
Loup Run 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Chilcoat Run 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blair Run 3.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Brush Creek 3.7 Warm — —
Croyle Run 3.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Carson Run 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pine Run 3.5 Warm — —
Boiling Spring Run 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Schell Run 3.5 Warm — —
Burgoon Run 3.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Gensimore Run 3.3 Warm — —
Herod Run 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Snyders Run 3.2 Warm — —
Three Springs Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Horn Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Fowler Run 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bright Run 3.0 untyped — —
Schmucker Run 2.9 Warm — —
Phranton Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wolf Run 2.8 untyped — —
Reeds Run 2.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Run 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Shingletown Branch 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Adams Run 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Fox Run 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Henrys Run 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ross Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pawpaw Run 2.3 Warm — —
Scotch Gap Run 2.3 Warm — —
Armond Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dry Gap Run 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Emma Creek 2.2 Warm — —
Geisler Run 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Vineyard Creek 2.2 Warm — —
Green Springs Run 2.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Spruce Run 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
McDonald Run 2.0 Warm — —
Bear Loop Run 1.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Lightner Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Snare Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gregory Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Big Lick Branch 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gypsy Run 1.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Redlick Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kelso Run 1.3 Cool — Trout Stocking
Nelson Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Township Run 1.1 Warm — —
North Branch Crooked Creek 1.0 Warm — —
Little Beaverdam Creek 0.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Marauders Run 0.7 Warm — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 13 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 13

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.