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Big Sewickley Creek, Pennsylvania
11.2 mapped river miles, draining 30 square miles, in the Upper Ohio basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.5 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 14.6 miles away, at Connoquenessing Creek Near Zelienople, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — USGS carries no water-temperature series for it at all, so no number here comes from it.
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 11.2–0.0 | 11.6 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 11.6 of the 11.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cool. 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
- Big Sewickley Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Big Sewickley Creek — access, parking and public land
- Big Sewickley Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Trout Stocking. The management tier on those reaches is Trout Stocking. 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
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 240 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Linbrook Woodlands | land trust or conservancy | 179 |
| Ambridge Fireman's Park | city land | 11 |
| Lilly | land trust or conservancy | 49 |
| Mound Street Playground | city land | 1 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — 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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- North Fork Big Sewickley Creek 6.2 mi · RM 4.5
- East Branch Big Sewickley Creek 3.7 mi · RM 7.0
Big Sewickley Creek sits in HUC 8 05030101, the Upper Ohio basin, and drains 30 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 22 NHD reaches carry the name for 11.7 miles in total — more than the 11.2 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.