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Wissahickon Creek, Pennsylvania
12.6 mapped river miles, draining 8 square miles, in the Schuylkill River basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and 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
This gauge stands in Wissahickon Creek. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is PA DEP's — but the reading is this water.
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 12.6–0.0 | 24.7 | cool | — |
PA DEP has classified 24.7 of the 25 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cool. 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
- Wissahickon Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Wissahickon Creek — access, parking and public land
- Wissahickon Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Trout Stocking. The management tier on those reaches is Trout Stocking. 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
25 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 4,602 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Green Ribbon Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 248 |
| Four Mills Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 58 |
| Upper Gwynedd Township Open Space | city land | 64 |
| Penllyn Park | county land | 134 |
| Wissahickon Park | county land | 19 |
| Green Ribbon Trail-Lot 1a | land trust or conservancy | 34 |
| West Side Park | city land | 24 |
| Montgomery Township Natural Area | city land | 39 |
| Adams Avenue Park | county land | 12 |
| Penllyn Natural Area | land trust or conservancy | 23 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Trout Stocking — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Willow Run 3.3 mi · RM 3.2
- Trewellyn Creek 3.3 mi · RM 5.5
- Prophecy Creek 2.4 mi · RM 1.7
- Haines Run 2.1 mi · RM 7.5
Wissahickon Creek sits in HUC 8 02040203, the Schuylkill River basin, and drains 8 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 53 NHD reaches carry the name for 24.7 miles in total — more than the 12.6 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.