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Little Cocalico Creek, Pennsylvania

6.8 mapped river miles, draining 15 square miles, in the Lower Susquehanna basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

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 11.1 miles away, at Tulpehocken Creek Near Bernville, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

62.6 °F
Tulpehocken Creek Near Bernville, Pa
11.1 mi away · 53 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:15 am ET
Cold-transitional

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 6.8–0.0 6.8 cool —

PA DEP has classified 6.8 of the 6.8 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% 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.

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

5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 497 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
State Game Land 274 another state agency 464
Bon View Estates Linear Park city land 7
West Cocalico Township Park city land 8
Bon View Linear Park city land 5
Chapel Gate Park city land 13

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

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Little Cocalico Creek sits in HUC 8 02050306, the Lower Susquehanna basin, and drains 15 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 13 NHD reaches carry the name for 6.8 miles in total.