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Fishing Creek, Pennsylvania
25 mapped river miles, draining 54 square miles, in the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek 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 Fishing 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 25.0–0.0 | 42.9 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 42.9 of the 43 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
- Fishing Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Fishing Creek — access, parking and public land
- Fishing 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
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 200,511 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle State Forest | another state agency | 187,666 |
| State Game Land 295 | another state agency | 12,845 |
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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Bull Run 3.7 mi · RM 9.9
- Mill Creek 3.2 mi · RM 14.1
- Eastville Run 2.2 mi · RM 18.9
Fishing Creek sits in HUC 8 02050204, the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek basin, and drains 54 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 91 NHD reaches carry the name for 43.0 miles in total — more than the 25.0 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.