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Powells Creek, Pennsylvania
16.4 mapped river miles, draining 25 square miles, in the Penns And Middle Creeks basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.7 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 15.7 miles away, at Swatara Creek Near Palmyra, 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 16.4–0.0 | 16.8 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 16.8 of the 16.8 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, 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.
Questions about this river
- Powells Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Powells Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Trout Stocking. The management tier on those reaches is Trout Stocking. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- South Fork Powells Creek 9.9 mi · RM 16.4
- North Fork Powells Creek 6.1 mi · RM 16.4
Powells Creek sits in HUC 8 02050301, the Penns And Middle Creeks basin, and drains 25 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 45 NHD reaches carry the name for 16.8 miles in total — more than the 16.4 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.