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Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania
18.5 mapped river miles, draining 30 square miles, in the Penns And Middle Creeks basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.4 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 15.4 miles away, at Fishing Creek Near Lamar, 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 18.5–0.0 | 20.9 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 20.9 of the 21 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
- Sinking Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Sinking Creek — access, parking and public land
- Sinking 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.
Access
2 mapped PA DEP access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Colyer South (RM 12.0), Colyer North (RM 11.7). 0 walk-in, 2 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 95,805 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Rothrock State Forest | another state agency | 86,475 |
| Thickhead Wild Area | another state agency | 4,139 |
| Rothrock State Forest - Thickhead Wild Area | state natural-resources agency | 4,139 |
| Bear Meadows Natural Area | another state agency | 895 |
| Colyer Lake (Formerly Sinking Springs Lake) Composite | another state agency | 156 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Potter Run 7.5 mi · RM 4.3
- Boal Gap Run 4.7 mi · RM 10.1
Sinking Creek sits in HUC 8 02050301, the Penns And Middle Creeks basin, and drains 30 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 34 NHD reaches carry the name for 20.9 miles in total — more than the 18.5 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.