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Bull Creek, Pennsylvania
13.2 mapped river miles, draining 49 square miles, in the Lower Allegheny basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 8.0 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 8.0 miles away, at Allegheny River At Lock & Dam 5 Near Freeport, 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 13.2–0.0 | 13.6 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 13.6 of the 13.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% 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
- Bull Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Bull Creek — access, parking and public land
- Bull 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.
Access
1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Tarentum (RM 0.0). 0 walk-in, 1 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 15 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Fema Flood Buyout (County Or Municipal Owned) | city land | 15 |
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
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Little Bull Creek 8.3 mi · RM 1.0
- Lardintown Run 6.3 mi · RM 5.5
- Rocky Run 4.3 mi · RM 9.0
- McDowell Run 3.7 mi · RM 4.1
Bull Creek sits in HUC 8 05010009, the Lower Allegheny basin, and drains 49 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 28 NHD reaches carry the name for 13.6 miles in total — more than the 13.2 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.