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Bald Eagle Creek, Pennsylvania
15.9 mapped river miles, draining 338 square miles, in the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 19.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 19.1 miles away, at Fishing Creek Near Lamar, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
Thermal classification
PA DEP's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | PA DEP type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.2 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 1.2 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.1 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.1 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.8 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.3 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 1.3 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 1.7 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.1 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.4 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 1.7 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.1 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 0.6 | cool | — |
| RM 15.9–15.9 | 2.4 | cold | — |
| RM 15.9–10.4 | 17.9 | cool | — |
| RM 10.4–0.0 | 21.3 | warm | — |
PA DEP has classified 50.2 of the 56 miles NHD carries for this stream — 89% of it. The typed water splits 22.7 mi cool, 21.3 mi warm, 6.2 mi cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water PA DEP's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Bald Eagle Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Bald Eagle Creek — access, parking and public land
- Bald Eagle Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, and Warm Water Fishes. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, Warm Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
Public land on the river
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 7,406 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle State Park | another state agency | 5,741 |
| Bald Eagle State Park | state park agency | 1,580 |
| Bald Eagle Area Baseball Fields | land trust or conservancy | 23 |
| Spring Creek (West Penn)/krauss Park | state fish and wildlife agency | 53 |
| Milesburg Borough Community Park | city land | 9 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
10 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Spring Creek 25.2 mi · RM 14.0
- Wallace Run 12.9 mi · RM 15.9
- Nittany Creek 9.4 mi · RM 10.4
- Lick Run 5.5 mi · RM 3.4
- Bullit Run 5.0 mi · RM 7.6
- Holt Run 3.9 mi · RM 12.7
- Antis Run 3.0 mi · RM 10.2
- Greens Run 3.0 mi · RM 6.0
- Hunters Run 2.8 mi · RM 1.1
- Moose Run 2.7 mi · RM 14.3
Bald Eagle Creek sits in HUC 8 02050204, the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek basin, and drains 338 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 216 NHD reaches carry the name for 56.4 miles in total — more than the 15.9 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.