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Pickering Creek, Pennsylvania
14.9 mapped river miles, draining 39 square miles, in the Schuylkill River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 3.8 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 3.8 miles away, at French Creek Near Phoenixville, 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 14.9–0.0 | 14.9 | cool | — |
| RM 0.0–0.0 | 0.8 | warm | — |
PA DEP has classified 15.7 of the 15.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 14.9 mi cool, 0.8 mi warm. 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
- Pickering Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Pickering Creek — access, parking and public land
- Pickering Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
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
9 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 312 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Pickering Preserve - Charlestown | city land | 101 |
| Pickering Creek Open Space | city land | 85 |
| Ostrander Park | city land | 16 |
| Pickering Preserve Park | joint city-county land | 24 |
| Pickering Preserve Park | city land | 24 |
| Pickering Road Open Space | city land | 35 |
| Meadow Creek Road | city land | 19 |
| Schuylkill Building Open Space | city land | 7 |
| Historic Mill | city land | 2 |
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
7 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Pine Creek 38.8 mi · RM 9.3
- Pigeon Run 3.2 mi · RM 6.3
- Wersler Run 2.2 mi · RM 1.8
- Buckwalter Run 1.3 mi · RM 2.7
- Wheatley Mine Run 1.1 mi · RM 2.2
- White Horse Run 0.8 mi · RM 0.3
- Maisfield Run 0.3 mi · RM 0.4
Pickering Creek sits in HUC 8 02040203, the Schuylkill River basin, and drains 39 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 29 NHD reaches carry the name for 15.7 miles in total — more than the 14.9 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.