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French Creek, Pennsylvania
12.4 mapped river miles, draining 47 square miles, in the Schuylkill River 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 French 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 3.2–0.0 | 7.3 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 7.3 of the 25 miles NHD carries for this stream — 29% 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
- French Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to French Creek — access, parking and public land
- French 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.
Public land on the river
9 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 728 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| French Creek Park | city land | 48 |
| Radio Tower Property | city land | 54 |
| French Creek Estates Open Space | city land | 14 |
| Warwick County Park | county land | 526 |
| E Pikeland Building Open Space | city land | 20 |
| Graham Tract Reserve | city land | 58 |
| French Creek Trail - E. Pikeland | city land | 3 |
| French Creek | city land | 1 |
| Brownfields Park | city land | 3 |
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.
- South Branch French Creek 10.6 mi · RM 12.4
- Beaver Run 7.9 mi · RM 10.5
- Birch Run 5.7 mi · RM 6.8
- Potters Run 1.0 mi · RM 0.1
French Creek sits in HUC 8 02040203, the Schuylkill River basin, and drains 47 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 54 NHD reaches carry the name for 24.8 miles in total — more than the 12.4 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.