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Middle Delaware-Musconetcong Watershed, Pennsylvania

1,192 miles of mapped stream across 1,359 square miles of drainage in Bucks, Northampton counties, in 83 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 188 of those miles as trout water, on 38 streams.

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Map key
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 02040105 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,192 mi
of mapped stream
4,632 NHD reaches
1,359 sq mi
drainage area
870,045 acres
0 ac
public land
2 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 55% of this basin's stream miles (658.6 of 1,192); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

292.8 of the 658.6 typed miles in this basin — 44% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.

Every named stream in the basin

All 83 of them, longest first. 4 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
Delaware River 83.7 Warm — —
Pennsylvania Canal 49.1 untyped — —
Tohickon Creek 30.8 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Delaware and Raritan Canal 28.1 untyped — —
Bushkill Creek 22.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cooks Creek 15.3 untyped — —
Lopatcong Creek 11.8 untyped — —
Martins Creek 10.6 Cool — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking
Little Bushkill Creek 8.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Deep Run 8.0 Warm — —
Buckhorn Creek 7.3 untyped — —
Harihokake Creek 7.3 untyped — —
Pidcock Creek 7.3 Warm — —
Jacobs Creek 7.3 untyped — —
Oughoughton Creek 7.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Schoeneck Creek 6.9 Warm — —
Jericho Creek 6.9 Warm — —
Tinicum Creek 6.7 untyped — —
Threemile Run 6.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Haycock Creek 6.2 Cool — Trout Stocking
Delawanna Creek 6.0 untyped — —
Houghs Creek 5.9 Warm — —
Rapp Creek 5.8 untyped — —
Pophandusing Brook 5.6 untyped — —
Little Martins Creek 5.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Paunnacussing Creek 5.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Geddes Run 5.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gallows Run 5.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Moores Creek 5.1 untyped — —
Stony Brook 4.9 untyped — —
Allegheny Creek 4.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Waltz Creek 4.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Mud Run 4.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Morgan Creek 4.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Beaver Creek 4.8 untyped — —
Dimple Creek 4.7 Cool — Trout Stocking
Sobers Run 4.4 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Jacoby Creek 4.3 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Branch Sobers Run 4.2 untyped — —
East Fork Martins Creek 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Cabin Run 4.2 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Beaver Run 4.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Slateford Creek 4.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Deer Run 4.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Frys Run 3.9 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Aquetong Creek 3.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Copper Creek 3.6 untyped — —
Pohatcong Creek 3.3 untyped — —
Brock Creek 3.3 Warm — —
Cuttalosa Creek 3.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
West Fork Martins Creek 3.0 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Warford Creek 3.0 untyped — —
Swamp Creek 2.9 Cool — Trout Stocking
Woolsey Brook 2.9 untyped — —
Buck Creek 2.9 Warm — —
Fiddlers Creek 2.8 untyped — —
Curls Run 2.7 Warm — —
Greenwalk Creek 2.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Swan Creek 2.3 untyped — —
Hollow Run 2.2 untyped — —
Mink Run 2.1 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Gold Run 2.1 untyped — —
Wolf Run 1.7 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dyers Creek 1.7 Warm — —
Smithtown Creek 1.6 Cool — Trout Stocking
Mill Creek 1.5 Cold — Cold Water Fishes
Dark Hollow Run 1.5 Cool — Trout Stocking
Falls Creek 1.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Rodges Run 1.4 Cool — Trout Stocking
Hickory Creek 1.1 Cool — Trout Stocking
Eileen Run 1.0 untyped — —
Rabbit Run 1.0 Cool — Trout Stocking
Nishisakawick Creek 0.9 untyped — —
Little Nishisakawick Creek 0.7 untyped — —
Wickecheoke Creek 0.5 untyped — —
Paulins Kill 0.4 untyped — —
Assunpink Creek 0.4 untyped — —
Pequest River 0.1 untyped — —
Lehigh River 0.1 untyped — —
Musconetcong River 0.1 untyped — —
Hakihokake Creek 0.1 untyped — —
Lockatong Creek 0.1 untyped — —
Alexauken Creek 0.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

0 acres in 2 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
PGC 0 0% 2

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.