BirdTrout

Monocacy Creek, Pennsylvania

18.7 mapped river miles, draining 42 square miles, in the Lehigh River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 7.6 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.

Open in BirdTrout →

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 7.6 miles away, at Lehigh River At Glendon, 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 19.0 of the 19.1 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% 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

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

21 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 554 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 — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Tributaries and watershed

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• East Branch Monocacy Creek 9.2 mi · RM 10.2

Monocacy Creek sits in HUC 8 02040106, the Lehigh River basin, and drains 42 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 38 NHD reaches carry the name for 19.1 miles in total — more than the 18.7 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.

• East Branch Monocacy Creek 1.9 mi
• Bushkill Creek 3.2 mi
• Silver Creek 4.9 mi
• Little Bushkill Creek 5.3 mi
• Catasauqua Creek 7.4 mi
• Martins Creek 8.4 mi