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Tobyhanna Creek, Pennsylvania

19.9 mapped river miles, draining 32 square miles, in the Lehigh River basin watershed. 1 USGS gauge report water temperature on it, and this page reads it.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

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.

Water temperature right now

Live from the USGS — every pill above is live, so the numbers you are reading are the latest continuous readings at each gauge. Provisional and unreviewed, as all real-time data is. If that fetch cannot happen — you are offline, or the USGS is down — the pills fall back to the last value we cached, 30 September 2026, 14:04 UTC.

59.7 °F
Blakeslee, Pa
RM 0.0 · 129 cfs · read 30 Sep, 9:15 am ET
Cold-transitional

Thermal classification

Each gauge carries a July mean built from its own daily record — 8 Julys, 2019–2026, measured rather than modelled. A July mean is what decides which of the four bands a stretch of water belongs to, because July is when a trout river either holds or does not.

Reach July mean Band Groundwater
Blakeslee, Pa
RM 19.9–0.0 		72.0 °F warm low

Every gauge sits at the bottom of its segment, so each number is the warm end and the water above it runs colder. ±2.48 °F on the fit.

Questions about this river

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.

Fishable reaches

River miles are measured above the mouth, along the mapped mainstem. The reach breaks are the gauges, which is also how the temperature model divides the river.

Reach Miles July mean Access on it
RM 19.9–0.0
down to Blakeslee, Pa 		27.6 72.0 °F —

0 mapped access sites on the mainstem: 0 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.

USGS gauges

Every gauge on the mainstem, upstream first. Links go to the USGS monitoring-location page for the site.

Public land on the river

7 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 45,439 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
State Game Land 127 another state agency 26,207
Tobyhanna State Park another state agency 5,565
Tobyhanna State Park state park agency 177
State Game Land #312 state fish and wildlife agency 4,501
State Game Land 312 another state agency 4,223
Sgl 312 state fish and wildlife agency 4,492
State Game Land 127 state fish and wildlife agency 274

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.

Historical July mean

The measured record behind every temperature band on this page: the mean of the daily means for July, at each gauge, over the years USGS has one.

Gauge July mean July range Julys
Blakeslee, Pa 72.0 °F 12.8 °F 8

Tributaries and watershed

12 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Tobyhanna Creek sits in HUC 8 02040106, the Lehigh River basin, and drains 32 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 110 NHD reaches carry the name for 31.2 miles in total — more than the 19.9 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.