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Spring Creek, Pennsylvania
8.4 mapped river miles, draining 14 square miles, in the Clarion River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 9.2 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 9.2 miles away, at Tionesta Creek At Lynch, 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 8.4–0.0 | 15.0 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 15.0 of the 16.3 miles NHD carries for this stream — 92% 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
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 586,512 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| State Game Land 028 | another state agency | 11,271 |
| Allegheny National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 575,241 |
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
13 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Wolf Run 12.5 mi · RM 8.4
- Pigeon Run 8.2 mi · RM 5.6
- Big Run 7.5 mi · RM 2.7
- Hunter Creek 6.3 mi · RM 6.1
- Hill Run 3.2 mi · RM 4.8
- Little Run 2.5 mi · RM 2.3
- McClellan Run 1.8 mi · RM 2.8
- Belvidere Run 1.7 mi · RM 1.1
- Kemp Run 1.4 mi · RM 7.1
- Steep Run 1.3 mi · RM 4.8
- Lappin Run 1.3 mi · RM 0.0
- Pearsall Run 1.0 mi · RM 4.3
Spring Creek sits in HUC 8 05010005, the Clarion River basin, and drains 14 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 31 NHD reaches carry the name for 16.3 miles in total — more than the 8.4 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.