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East Branch Coxes Creek, Pennsylvania
5.8 mapped river miles, draining 27 square miles, in the Youghiogheny River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.1 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 12.1 miles away, at Casselman River At Markleton, 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 5.8–3.7 | 2.2 | warm | — |
| RM 3.7–0.0 | 5.5 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 7.7 of the 7.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 5.5 mi cool, 2.2 mi warm. 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.
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as 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 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.
Access
2 mapped PA DEP access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Lake Somerset (RM 5.5), Lake Somerset (RM 4.8). 0 walk-in, 2 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 460 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Somerset Lake | another state agency | 460 |
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.
- Kimberly Run 7.2 mi · RM 1.7
- Parson Run 1.2 mi · RM 2.2
East Branch Coxes Creek sits in HUC 8 05020006, the Youghiogheny River basin, and drains 27 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 14 NHD reaches carry the name for 7.7 miles in total — more than the 5.8 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.