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Pine Creek, Pennsylvania
21 mapped river miles, draining 45 square miles, in the Pine Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 17.5 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 18.0 miles away, at Kettle Creek At Cross Fork, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 25 June 2025, so no number here comes from it.
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 20.7–17.3 | 3.4 | cool | — |
| RM 17.9–17.2 | 2.3 | cold | — |
| RM 17.3–16.5 | 0.8 | cool | — |
| RM 17.2–17.0 | 15.4 | cold | — |
| RM 16.5–0.0 | 56.4 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 78.3 of the 92 miles NHD carries for this stream — 85% of it. The typed water splits 60.6 mi cool, 17.7 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.
Public land on the river
7 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 201,178 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Tioga State Forest - Pine Creek Gorge Natural Area | state natural-resources agency | 12,976 |
| Pine Creek Gorge | another state agency | 11,582 |
| Pine Creek Gorge Natural Area | another state agency | 1,385 |
| Tioga State Forest | another state agency | 146,791 |
| Colton Point State Park | another state agency | 378 |
| Leonard Harrison State Park | another state agency | 565 |
| State Game Land 075 | another state agency | 27,501 |
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
29 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Babb Creek 25.5 mi · RM 3.5
- Trout Run 14.8 mi · RM 0.0
- Marsh Creek 14.4 mi · RM 20.7
- Bear Run 8.6 mi · RM 17.3
- Little Slate Run 5.3 mi · RM 13.9
- Big Run 4.7 mi · RM 3.0
- Bull Run 3.8 mi · RM 0.6
- Campbells Run 3.3 mi · RM 12.0
- Fourmile Run 2.9 mi · RM 16.4
- Pine Island Run 2.7 mi · RM 8.0
- Schoolhouse Run 2.6 mi · RM 2.4
- Tumbling Run 1.9 mi · RM 14.4
Pine Creek sits in HUC 8 02050205, the Pine Creek basin, and drains 45 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 216 NHD reaches carry the name for 92.4 miles in total — more than the 20.7 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.