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Clark Creek, Pennsylvania
31 mapped river miles, draining 45 square miles, in the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.8 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 11.8 miles away, at Swatara Creek Near Palmyra, 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 31.4–0.0 | 31.9 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 31.9 of the 32 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, 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
- Clark Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Clark Creek — access, parking and public land
- Clark Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes. The management tier on those reaches is Cold 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
6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 100,247 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 211 | state fish and wildlife agency | 44,194 |
| State Game Land 211 | another state agency | 44,358 |
| Detweiler Park | county land | 404 |
| Flemish Down Land Acquisition (Clarks Creek) | land trust or conservancy | 24 |
| Bailey's Grove | another state agency | 27 |
| State Game Land 210 | another state agency | 11,241 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
Clark Creek sits in HUC 8 02050305, the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin, and drains 45 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 33 NHD reaches carry the name for 31.9 miles in total — more than the 31.4 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.