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Spring Creek, Pennsylvania
25 mapped river miles, draining 31 square miles, in the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 19.0 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 19.0 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 25.2–0.0 | 25.2 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 25.2 of the 25 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
- Spring Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Spring Creek — access, parking and public land
- Spring 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
21 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 1,789 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 333 | another state agency | 1,258 |
| Spring Creek - Rockview | another state agency | 60 |
| Spring Creek (Levin) | another state agency | 142 |
| Spring Creek (West Penn)/krauss Park | state fish and wildlife agency | 53 |
| Benner Spring State Fish Hatchery | another state agency | 47 |
| Krauss Park | another state agency | 6 |
| Krauss Park | county land | 4 |
| Pennsylvania Military Museum | another state agency | 54 |
| Eugene Fasick Memorial Park | city land | 17 |
| Spring Creek - Rock Road | another state agency | 8 |
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
6 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Bald Eagle Creek 56.4 mi · RM 0.0
- Cedar Run 16.9 mi · RM 18.7
- Buffalo Run 14.7 mi · RM 2.1
- Slab Cabin Run 11.8 mi · RM 15.0
- Logan Branch 8.6 mi · RM 2.8
- Galbraith Gap Run 4.0 mi · RM 21.4
Spring Creek sits in HUC 8 02050204, the Bald Eagle And Spring Creek basin, and drains 31 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 56 NHD reaches carry the name for 25.2 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.