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Macoby Creek, Pennsylvania

8.3 mapped river miles, draining 17 square miles, in the Schuylkill River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 9.8 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

58 64 70

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 10.6 miles away, at Perkiomen Creek At Graterford, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 17 April 2024, so no number here comes from it.

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.

PA DEP has classified 8.9 of the 9.0 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% 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

• Macoby Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to Macoby Creek — access, parking and public land
• Macoby 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

8 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 3,717 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

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

2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• Stony Run 15.9 mi · RM 3.2
• Macoby Creek Branch 2.6 mi · RM 5.9

Macoby Creek sits in HUC 8 02040203, the Schuylkill River basin, and drains 17 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 24 NHD reaches carry the name for 9.0 miles in total — more than the 8.3 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.

• Perkiomen Creek 0.6 mi
• Unami Creek 3.3 mi
• Indian Creek 5.8 mi
• Mine Run 5.9 mi
• Swamp Creek 6.8 mi
• East Branch Perkiomen Creek 7.4 mi