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Sixmile Creek, Pennsylvania
14.0 mapped river miles, draining 19 square miles, in the Lake Erie Tributaries basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 15.6 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 15.6 miles away, at Walnut Creek Upstream Pool, Near Erie, 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 14.0–0.0 | 14.0 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 14.0 of the 14.1 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.
The lake run
The Sixmile Creek is a Lake Erie tributary with 13.7 miles of run corridor on it — salmon, steelhead and lake-run brown trout, on their own calendar and under their own rules. Run timing, species and access on the Sixmile Creek →
Questions about this river
- Sixmile Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Sixmile Creek — access, parking and public land
- Sixmile 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
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 475 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Six Mile Creek Park | county land | 469 |
| Whitford Park | county land | 6 |
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
Sixmile Creek sits in HUC 8 04120101, the Lake Erie Tributaries basin, and drains 19 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 26 NHD reaches carry the name for 14.1 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.