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East Branch White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania
13.3 mapped river miles, draining 34 square miles, in the Brandywine Christina basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and 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
This gauge stands in East Branch White Clay Creek. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is PA DEP's — but the reading is this water.
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 7.6–0.0 | 7.8 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 7.8 of the 13.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 58% 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
- East Branch White Clay Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to East Branch White Clay Creek — access, parking and public land
- East Branch White Clay 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
11 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 5,031 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| White Clay Creek Preserve | state park agency | 3,306 |
| White Clay Creek Preserve | another state agency | 1,392 |
| Mill Race Preserve | city land | 42 |
| London Grove Open Space | city land | 59 |
| Chandler Woods Preserve | city land | 18 |
| Phelps | joint city-county land | 34 |
| Steamer Stop - Laurel Woods Preserve | city land | 34 |
| James Watson Park | city land | 9 |
| New Garden Township Passive-Recreation Park | city land | 115 |
| Hendrickson Property | city land | 1 |
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
8 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Broad Run 14.7 mi · RM 1.8
- Trout Run 1.7 mi · RM 7.6
- Egypt Run 1.6 mi · RM 4.5
- Evans Brook 1.1 mi · RM 9.8
- Lenni Lenape Run 0.8 mi · RM 6.5
- Laurel Woods Run 0.7 mi · RM 3.5
- Chandlers Run 0.6 mi · RM 3.0
- Mushroom Run 0.5 mi · RM 6.1
East Branch White Clay Creek sits in HUC 8 02040205, the Brandywine Christina basin, and drains 34 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 23 NHD reaches carry the name for 13.6 miles in total — more than the 13.3 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.