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McMichael Creek, Pennsylvania

14.5 mapped river miles, draining 115 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 10.5 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 10.5 miles away, at Brodhead Creek Near Analomink, 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.

PA DEP has classified 16.1 of the 23 miles NHD carries for this stream — 69% of it. The typed water splits 14.9 mi cold, 1.2 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

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

14 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 766 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

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

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

• Pocono Creek 16.0 mi · RM 0.5
• Appenzell Creek 7.7 mi · RM 7.6
• Lake Creek 6.6 mi · RM 11.4

McMichael Creek sits in HUC 8 02040104, the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin, and drains 115 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 71 NHD reaches carry the name for 23.3 miles in total — more than the 14.5 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.

• Pocono Creek 2.1 mi
• Cherry Creek 2.6 mi
• Brodhead Creek 5.1 mi
• Forest Hills Run 6.5 mi
• Paradise Creek 7.0 mi
• Marshalls Creek 7.0 mi