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Lackawaxen River Watershed, Pennsylvania

1,109 miles of mapped stream across 598 square miles of drainage in Wayne, Pike, Lackawanna, Monroe counties, in 74 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 383 of those miles as trout water, on 70 streams. The 4 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 67.6 and 74.0°F in July.

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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 every stream in the basin

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. On this map the colour is PA DEP's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water PA DEP has not typed.

The watershed in numbers

HUC8 02040103 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,109 mi
of mapped stream
4,874 NHD reaches
598 sq mi
drainage area
382,674 acres
67.6–74.0°F
July water temperature at the gauges
4 mainstem gauges, mean 69.6°F
0 ac
public land
3 units

Cold, cool and warm water

Pennsylvania publishes no thermal class. What PA DEP publishes is a Chapter 93 designated use — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, Warm Water Fishes and the rest — which names the fishery a stream is protected for. It is the closest any agency here comes to a temperature without being one, and docs/pa-thermal-fit.md is where the distinction is measured rather than asserted. It covers 87% of this basin's stream miles (963.0 of 1,109); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

894.1 of the 963.0 typed miles in this basin — 93% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 74 of them, longest first. 11 have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is PA DEP's designation of that stream. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream Miles Class Now Designation
Wallenpaupack Creek 30.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lackawaxen River 28.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
West Branch Lackawaxen River 27.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Middle Creek 23.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek 16.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Branch Dyberry Creek 13.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Johnson Creek 12.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Blooming Grove Creek 12.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Carley Brook 10.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Ariel Creek 9.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Dyberry Creek 9.2 untyped — —
Van Auken Creek 9.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Big Brook 8.1 untyped — —
Dyberry Creek 7.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Holbert Creek 7.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Jones Creek 7.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mill Creek 7.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Purdy Creek 7.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Falls Creek 7.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mile Brook 6.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
East Branch Wallenpaupack Creek 6.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Swamp Brook 6.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wangum Creek 5.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Big Inlet 4.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Indian Orchard Brook 4.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Bridge Creek 4.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Butternut Creek 4.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wilcox Creek 4.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Decker Creek 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Middle Branch Dyberry Creek 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Moss Hollow Creek 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Spinner Brook 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Egypt Creek 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cramer Creek 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Tinkwig Creek 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Collins Brook 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Freeling Run 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rock Port Creek 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mill Brook 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Fairview Outlet 4.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Taylor Creek 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Pond Brook 3.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rose Pond Branch 3.6 untyped — —
Potter Creek 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Stevens Creek 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gates Run 3.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kintz Creek 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Rocky Run 3.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sugar Hill Creek 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kleinhans Creek 3.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Webster Creek 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mozette Creek 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Lords Creek 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Headley Brook 2.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Diamond Creek 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Swan Creek 2.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Alder Marsh Brook 2.4 untyped — —
Red Shale Brook 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Spring Brook 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Steam Mill Run 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Grassy Island Creek 2.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Seeley Brook 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sheridan Brook 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Kirkham Creek 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Teedyuskung Creek 1.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Wilson Creek 1.8 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Nevin Creek 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Little Blooming Grove Creek 1.6 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Manny Run 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Hooper Creek 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Uban Creek 1.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Sand Spring Creek 1.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
O'Donnell Creek 1.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Seventeenmile Creek 1.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 3 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 3

The biggest named blocks of it, each with its own page — the streams on that ground, what is open to hunt on it, and where the access sites are.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.