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Pine Creek, Pennsylvania
13.7 mapped river miles, draining 48 square miles, in the Lower Allegheny basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 10.0 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 10.0 miles away, at Allegheny R At Cw Bill Young L&d At Acmetonia, 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 13.7–13.7 | 8.4 | cold | — |
| RM 13.7–12.9 | 0.8 | cool | — |
| RM 13.7–13.7 | 0.0 | cold | — |
| RM 12.9–0.0 | 15.3 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 24.5 of the 25 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. The typed water splits 16.1 mi cool, 8.4 mi 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
- Pine Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Pine Creek — access, parking and public land
- Pine Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes and Trout Stocking. 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 Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
Access
1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Glenshaw Access (RM 4.1). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
12 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 3,243 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| North Park | county land | 2,934 |
| Fema Flood Buyout (County Or Municipal Owned) | city land | 15 |
| Rutledge Tract Acquisition | land trust or conservancy | 65 |
| Miller | land trust or conservancy | 12 |
| Glenshaw Park | county land | 12 |
| Glenshaw Access | another state agency | 7 |
| Lower Glenshaw Park | city land | 7 |
| William Dougherty Veteran's Memorial Field | city land | 5 |
| Wernert Woods | land trust or conservancy | 2 |
| North Park | city land | 86 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes, 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
5 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Little Pine Creek 12.9 mi · RM 0.4
- Montour Run 5.0 mi · RM 12.5
- Willow Run 4.9 mi · RM 11.5
- Crouse Run 4.2 mi · RM 9.8
- Gourdhead Run 2.9 mi · RM 6.8
Pine Creek sits in HUC 8 05010009, the Lower Allegheny basin, and drains 48 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 38 NHD reaches carry the name for 24.6 miles in total — more than the 13.7 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.