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Mill Creek, Pennsylvania
9.4 mapped river miles, draining 38 square miles, in the Lower Juniata basin watershed.
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.
Thermal classification
There is no USGS gauge within 40 miles of this stream in the record this site holds, so there is no live temperature on this page and no measured July mean. Everything below the bar is PA DEP's own classification of the water.
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 9.4–0.0 | 8.7 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 8.7 of the 9.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 91% 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
- Mill Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Mill Creek — access, parking and public land
- Mill 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
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 6,644 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 112 | another state agency | 6,628 |
| Mill Creek Lions Park | county land | 15 |
| Mill Creek Playground | county land | 1 |
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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Saddler Creek 10.6 mi · RM 1.2
- Maddern Run 3.0 mi · RM 6.3
- Flush Run 2.2 mi · RM 0.8
Mill Creek sits in HUC 8 02050304, the Lower Juniata basin, and drains 38 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 23 NHD reaches carry the name for 9.6 miles in total — more than the 9.4 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.