BirdTrout
Upper Susquehanna River Watershed, Pennsylvania
726 miles of mapped stream across 2,289 square miles of drainage in Susquehanna, Wayne counties, in 47 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 181 of those miles as trout water, on 38 streams.
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 02050101 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 71% of this basin's stream miles (518.7 of 726); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 498.4 mi (96%)
- Warm 20.3 mi (4%)
498.4 of the 518.7 typed miles in this basin — 96% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.
Every named stream in the basin
All 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susquehanna River | 28.9 | Warm | — | — |
| Starrucca Creek | 20.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Snake Creek | 19.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Salt Lick Creek | 13.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Snake Creek | 13.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Trowbridge Creek | 9.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Shadigee Creek | 8.2 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Silver Creek | 8.0 | untyped | — | — |
| DuBois Creek | 7.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| West Fork Little Snake Creek | 7.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Creek | 7.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Drinker Creek | 5.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Rhiney Creek | 5.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Fall Brook | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch Hemlock Creek | 5.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| South Branch Canawacta Creek | 5.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Mitchell Creek | 5.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Carlin Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Lake Creek | 4.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Rhiney Creek | 4.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Cascade Creek | 4.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Meylert Creek | 4.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Deacon Brook | 4.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| East Branch Canawacta Creek | 3.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| McCormick Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Hemlock Creek | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Denton Creek | 3.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| East Lake Creek | 3.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Roaring Run | 3.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Lewis Creek | 3.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Egypt Creek | 3.2 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Hilborn Creek | 2.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Roaring Brook | 2.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Smith Creek | 2.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Pigpen Creek | 2.6 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Gratsinger Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Merrigan Creek | 2.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Wildcat Run | 2.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Wellmans Creek | 2.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Jones Creek | 2.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Canawacta Creek | 2.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Bedbug Brook | 1.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| High Bridge Creek | 1.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Horton Creek | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Hemlock Creek | 0.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Ross Pond | 0.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Warriner Pond | 0.2 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
Public land in the watershed
0 acres in 3 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGC | 0 | 0% | 3 |
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.