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Yellow Breeches Creek, Pennsylvania
19.1 mapped river miles, draining 157 square miles, in the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 18.1 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 18.1 miles away, at Swift Run At Brickcrafter Rd Nr New Oxford, 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 19.1–0.0 | 58.0 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 58.0 of the 58 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
- Yellow Breeches Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Yellow Breeches Creek — access, parking and public land
- Yellow Breeches 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.
Access
1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Spanglers Mills - Camp Hill Access (RM 5.2). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
10 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 763 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Camp Hill Access | another state agency | 70 |
| Lower Allen Community Park (Lacp) | city land | 114 |
| Municipal Land | city land | 486 |
| New Cumberland Borough Park | city land | 36 |
| Yellow Breeches Park | county land | 12 |
| Juniper Drive Park | county land | 9 |
| Beacon Heights, Tract 2 | city land | 8 |
| Green Lane Park | county land | 6 |
| Creekwood Park | county land | 4 |
| Simpson Park | county land | 18 |
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
10 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Stony Run 8.1 mi · RM 19.1
- Cedar Run 4.6 mi · RM 3.4
- Pippins Run 3.7 mi · RM 16.6
- Iron Stone Run 3.0 mi · RM 6.2
- Priest Run 2.6 mi · RM 0.3
- Line Run 2.6 mi · RM 14.1
- Cedar Point Run 1.7 mi · RM 13.1
- Green Run 1.6 mi · RM 14.0
- Millers Run 1.1 mi · RM 13.2
- Lime Kiln Run 0.9 mi · RM 1.9
Yellow Breeches Creek sits in HUC 8 02050305, the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin, and drains 157 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 125 NHD reaches carry the name for 58.1 miles in total — more than the 19.1 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.