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Youghiogheny River Watershed, Pennsylvania

2,664 miles of mapped stream across 1,761 square miles of drainage in Somerset, Fayette, Westmoreland, Allegheny counties, in 208 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 648 of those miles as trout water, on 123 streams. The 2 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 75.4 and 76.7°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 05020006 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,664 mi
of mapped stream
6,103 NHD reaches
1,761 sq mi
drainage area
1,127,056 acres
75.4–76.7°F
July water temperature at the gauges
2 mainstem gauges, mean 76.1°F
0 ac
public land
6 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 90% of this basin's stream miles (2400.1 of 2,664); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1221.7 of the 2400.1 typed miles in this basin — 51% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 208 of them, longest first. 9 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
Youghiogheny River 92.9 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Casselman River 62.9 Warm — —
Laurel Hill Creek 38.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Jacobs Creek 34.2 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Sewickley Creek 33.7 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Laurel Run 33.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Indian Creek 32.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Meadow Run 28.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Buffalo Run 17.5 Warm — —
Mill Run 16.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Buffalo Creek 15.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Piney Creek 15.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Sewickley Creek 14.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Dunbar Creek 14.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mounts Creek 13.8 Warm — —
Flaugherty Creek 13.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Creek 13.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Jacks Run 12.4 Warm — Trout Stocking
Glade Run 11.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Elklick Creek 10.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Whites Creek 9.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blue Lick Creek 8.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Long Run 8.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Lick Run 8.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Coxes Creek 7.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Coxes Creek 7.6 Warm — —
Beaver Creek 7.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cucumber Run 7.5 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Isers Run 7.4 untyped — —
Kimberly Run 7.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Champion Creek 7.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Brush Run 7.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bear Run 7.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Welty Run 7.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Branch Coxes Creek 6.9 Warm — —
Spruce Run 6.9 Warm — Cold Water Fishes
Sandy Run 6.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wilson Creek 6.7 Warm — —
Township Line Run 6.7 Warm — —
South Glade Creek 6.5 Warm — —
Drake Run 6.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Opossum Run 6.0 Warm — —
Morgan Run 6.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Slate Creek 6.0 Warm — —
Cove Run 5.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tub Mill Run 5.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Miller Run 5.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Barren Run 5.9 Warm — —
Wilson Run 5.9 Warm — —
Jones Mill Run 5.8 untyped — —
Green Lick Run 5.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crab Run 5.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Buck Run 5.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Shafer Run 5.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Fall Creek 5.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Millers Run 5.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Piney Creek 5.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cranberry Glade Run 5.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Poplar Run 5.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pollock Run 5.4 Warm — —
Camp Run 5.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Roaring Run 5.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Red Run 5.2 untyped — —
Town Line Run 5.2 Warm — —
Pike Run 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rasler Run 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Stony Run 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tubs Run 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Puzzley Run 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Jonathan Run 5.1 untyped — —
Washington Run 5.1 Warm — —
Tub Run 5.0 Warm — —
Big Shade Run 5.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cedar Creek 5.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
McClintock Run 4.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kooser Run 4.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Allen Creek 4.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blue Hole Creek 4.7 untyped — —
Rhoades Creek 4.7 Warm — —
Clear Run 4.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Champion Creek 4.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cranberry Run 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Swamp Creek 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Glade Run 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lost Creek 4.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bruner Run 4.0 untyped — —
Sherrick Run 4.0 Warm — —
Stauffer Run 4.0 Warm — —
North Branch Sewickley Creek 4.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ramcat Run 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Connell Run 3.9 Warm — —
Breakneck Run 3.9 Warm — —
Gillespie Run 3.9 Warm — —
Rice Run 3.8 Warm — —
Boyer Run 3.8 Warm — —
Hall Run 3.7 Warm — —
Fulton Run 3.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gist Run 3.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
South Spruce Run 3.7 Warm — —
Furnace Run 3.7 Warm — —
Back Creek 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Deadman Run 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Stumn Run 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bigby Creek 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Fork Laurel Run 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Whites Run 3.5 Warm — —
Virgin Run 3.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Brinker Run 3.5 Warm — —
Trout Run 3.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Twomile Run 3.3 untyped — —
Becket Run 3.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Hickman Run 3.2 Warm — —
Shupe Run 3.2 Warm — —
Little Shade Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bromm Run 3.1 Warm — —
Moore Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mose King Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Clay Run 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Galley Run 3.1 Warm — —
Andrews Run 3.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Newmyer Run 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Richter Run 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Smiley Run 3.0 Warm — —
Braddocks Run 2.9 Warm — —
Little Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Neals Run 2.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kelly Run 2.9 Warm — —
Crawford Run 2.9 Warm — —
Garys Run 2.8 untyped — —
Harbaugh Run 2.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Enos Run 2.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ferguson Run 2.8 Cool — Trout Stocking
Rock Run 2.8 untyped — —
Pinkham Run 2.7 Warm — —
Licking Run 2.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tates Run 2.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Chub Run 2.6 Warm — —
Spiker Run 2.6 untyped — —
Belson Run 2.6 Warm — —
Reason Run 2.5 Warm — —
Cole Run 2.5 untyped — —
Kimmel Run 2.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Noahs Glade 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Irishtown Run 2.5 untyped — —
Irish Run 2.5 Warm — —
Douglass Run 2.5 Warm — —
Hen Run 2.4 Warm — —
Gross Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Green King Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Weimer Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Johnson Run 2.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rock Spring Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dickerson Run 2.3 Warm — —
Latta Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
South Branch Laurel Run 2.2 untyped — —
Spook Run 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Minnow Run 2.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tucker Run 2.2 untyped — —
Flag Run 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bucks Run 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
North Branch Cucumber Run 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Limestone Run 2.1 untyped — —
Browneller Run 2.1 Warm — —
Hurst Run 2.1 Warm — —
Pinkerton Run 2.1 Warm — —
Crise Run 2.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Keller Run 2.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Christner Run 2.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Zehner Run 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Painters Run 1.9 Warm — —
North Branch Laurel Run 1.8 untyped — —
Little Buffalo Run 1.8 untyped — —
Bear Creek 1.8 untyped — —
Stony Batter Run 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lost Run 1.8 Warm — —
Great Meadow Run 1.8 untyped — —
Hunters Run 1.8 Warm — —
Alex Run 1.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Coal Tar Run 1.7 Warm — —
Whipkey Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wash Run 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Elk Rock Run 1.6 untyped — —
Zellers Run 1.6 Warm — —
Shanks Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
May Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Slaubaugh Run 1.4 untyped — —
Shunck Run 1.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dempsey Run 1.4 Warm — —
Vought Run 1.4 untyped — —
Sheepskin Run 1.4 untyped — —
Workman Run 1.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Showman Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Hays Run 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blackberry Run 1.3 untyped — —
Collier Run 1.2 Warm — —
Parson Run 1.2 Cool — Trout Stocking
Hoy Run 1.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Humphreys Run 1.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Jim Run 1.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Crooked Run 1.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ansell Run 1.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Peck Run 1.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sugar Run 1.0 untyped — —
Schoolhouse Run 0.9 untyped — —
Shade Run 0.9 untyped — —
Church Run 0.9 untyped — —
Stulls Run 0.8 Warm — —
Flat Rock Run 0.7 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 6 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 6

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.