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Middle Creek, Pennsylvania
16.7 mapped river miles, draining 27 square miles, in the Monocacy basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.1 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 15.1 miles away, at Swift Run At Brickcrafter Rd Nr New Oxford, 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 16.7–0.0 | 17.3 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 17.3 of the 17.4 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
- Middle Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Middle Creek — access, parking and public land
- Middle 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, 186,412 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Michaux State Forest | state natural-resources agency | 93,925 |
| Michaux State Forest | another state agency | 91,879 |
| Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve | another state agency | 571 |
| Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 37 |
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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Muddy Run 5.5 mi · RM 9.6
- Spring Run 3.6 mi · RM 10.4
- Swamp Creek 2.5 mi · RM 14.8
Middle Creek sits in HUC 8 02070009, the Monocacy basin, and drains 27 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 27 NHD reaches carry the name for 17.4 miles in total — more than the 16.7 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.