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Saw Creek, Pennsylvania
16.9 mapped river miles, draining 30 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 7.5 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 11.6 miles away, at Brodhead Creek Near Analomink, Pa — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — it has sent no water temperature for 712 days, since 16 October 2024, 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 16.9–0.0 | 18.4 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 18.4 of the 18.4 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, 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
- Saw Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Saw Creek — access, parking and public land
- Saw Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes. The management tier on those reaches is Cold 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
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 161,686 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware State Forest | state natural-resources agency | 83,205 |
| Delaware State Forest | another state agency | 78,367 |
| Lehman Township Community Park | city land | 63 |
| Community Park Acquisition 1 | city land | 52 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes — 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.
- Red Rock Run 4.1 mi · RM 5.2
Saw Creek sits in HUC 8 02040104, the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin, and drains 30 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 79 NHD reaches carry the name for 18.4 miles in total — more than the 16.9 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.