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North Branch Neshaminy Creek, Pennsylvania

10.3 mapped river miles, draining 20 square miles, in the Crosswicks Neshaminy basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.3 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

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 15.3 miles away, at Wissahickon Creek At Fort Washington, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

64.9 °F
Wissahickon Creek At Fort Washington, Pa
15.3 mi away · 66 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:30 am ET
Cool

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 10.3–2.4 7.9 warm —
RM 2.4–0.0 3.4 cool —

PA DEP has classified 11.3 of the 11.3 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 7.9 mi warm, 3.4 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.

PA DEP classification

PA DEP classifies this water as Trout Stocking and Warm Water Fishes. 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 Trout Stocking, Warm 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

6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 1,624 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Peace Valley Park county land 1,473
Patriot Place city land 17
Bridge View Park city land 19
North Branch Park city land 65
Community Park 5 city land 26
Owls Nest Park city land 25

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

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

North Branch Neshaminy Creek sits in HUC 8 02040201, the Crosswicks Neshaminy basin, and drains 20 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 36 NHD reaches carry the name for 11.3 miles in total — more than the 10.3 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.