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Little Bushkill Creek, Pennsylvania
8.6 mapped river miles, draining 18 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Musconetcong basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 8.9 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 8.9 miles away, at Lehigh River At Glendon, 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 8.6–0.0 | 8.6 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 8.6 of the 8.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% 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
- Little Bushkill Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Little Bushkill Creek — access, parking and public land
- Little Bushkill 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
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 194 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Gall Farm Park | county land | 150 |
| Ferraro Obulaney Tract | city land | 33 |
| Open Space (Along Bushkill Creek) | county land | 7 |
| Newhart Park | county land | 3 |
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
Little Bushkill Creek sits in HUC 8 02040105, the Middle Delaware Musconetcong basin, and drains 18 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 13 NHD reaches carry the name for 8.7 miles in total — more than the 8.6 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.