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Little Pine Creek, Pennsylvania
15.6 mapped river miles, draining 167 square miles, in the Pine Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 8.7 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 8.7 miles away, at Pine Creek (Pine Creek Gorge) — 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 15.6–3.8 | 11.7 | cold | — |
| RM 3.8–0.0 | 4.4 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 16.1 of the 16.1 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 11.7 mi cold, 4.4 mi 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
- Little Pine Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Little Pine Creek — access, parking and public land
- Little Pine Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes and Trout Stocking. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes, 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
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 160,730 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Little Pine State Park | another state agency | 2,191 |
| State Game Land 075 | another state agency | 27,501 |
| Tiadaghton State Forest | another state agency | 130,954 |
| Little Pine State Park | state park agency | 84 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes, 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
18 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Blockhouse Creek 16.5 mi · RM 15.6
- Bonnell Run 9.5 mi · RM 13.0
- English Run 9.0 mi · RM 3.7
- Bear Run 8.6 mi · RM 13.8
- Lick Run 7.8 mi · RM 12.2
- Texas Creek 6.0 mi · RM 15.6
- Naval Run 4.7 mi · RM 4.7
- Otter Run 3.8 mi · RM 8.1
- Boone Run 2.7 mi · RM 3.4
- Carsons Run 2.7 mi · RM 7.5
- Dam Run 2.3 mi · RM 1.2
- Love Run 2.3 mi · RM 4.6
Little Pine Creek sits in HUC 8 02050205, the Pine Creek basin, and drains 167 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 49 NHD reaches carry the name for 16.1 miles in total — more than the 15.6 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.