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Shohola Creek, Pennsylvania
16.0 mapped river miles, draining 80 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and 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
This gauge stands in Shohola Creek. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is PA DEP's — but the reading is this water.
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 16.0–0.0 | 29.6 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 29.6 of the 31 miles NHD carries for this stream — 96% 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
- Shohola Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Shohola Creek — access, parking and public land
- Shohola 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
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 180,555 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 180 | another state agency | 12,664 |
| Delaware State Forest - Bruce Lake Natural Area | state natural-resources agency | 3,160 |
| Bruce Lake Natural Area | another state agency | 3,160 |
| Delaware State Forest | state natural-resources agency | 83,205 |
| Delaware State Forest | another state agency | 78,367 |
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
8 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- York Creek 3.2 mi · RM 6.2
- Billings Creek 3.1 mi · RM 5.8
- Birchy Creek 2.2 mi · RM 0.7
- Notch Brook 1.6 mi · RM 11.4
- McConnell Creek 1.6 mi · RM 4.7
- Holsey Run 1.6 mi · RM 10.0
- Spring Brook 1.0 mi · RM 13.0
- Mount Run 0.9 mi · RM 8.4
Shohola Creek sits in HUC 8 02040104, the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin, and drains 80 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 82 NHD reaches carry the name for 30.7 miles in total — more than the 16.0 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.