BirdTrout
Penns And Middle Creeks Watershed, Pennsylvania
1,051 miles of mapped stream across 1,448 square miles of drainage, in 132 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 786 of those miles as trout water, on 96 streams.
Open in BirdTrout50°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 02050301 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.
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 0% of this basin's stream miles (0.0 of 1,051); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
No reach in this subbasin carries a Chapter 93 use this page can read, so it has no cold/cool/warm breakdown for it. Pennsylvania does have a fitted thermal model — see docs/pa-thermal-fit.md — and it is the classification that is absent here rather than the state's ability to make one.
Every named stream in the basin
All 132 of them, longest first. 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penns Creek | 67.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Mahanoy Creek | 52.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Creek | 45.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Susquehanna River | 44.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wiconisco Creek | 44.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Mahantango Creek | 37.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Shamokin Creek | 35.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Middle Creek | 33.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Deep Creek | 30.1 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Mahantango Creek | 21.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Sinking Creek | 20.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Elk Creek | 19.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Powells Creek | 16.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Armstrong Creek | 16.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Swift Run | 15.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Wiconisco Creek | 15.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Shamokin Creek | 15.0 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Mahantango Creek | 13.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Schwaben Creek | 12.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Laurel Run | 11.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Weikert Run | 10.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Mahantango Creek | 9.9 | untyped | — | — |
| South Fork Powells Creek | 9.9 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Middle Creek | 9.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Run | 9.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Poe Creek | 9.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Quaker Run | 8.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Zerbe Run | 8.5 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Middle Creek | 8.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Mahanoy Creek | 7.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Potter Run | 7.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Ulsh Gap Run | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Dry Run | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Hallowing Run | 6.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Conleys Creek | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Monongahela Creek | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Silver Creek | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Bargers Run | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Shenandoah Creek | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Sweitzers Run | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Hunters Run | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| North Fork Powells Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Tuscarora Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kern Run | 5.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Mouse Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Susquehecka Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Panther Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cherry Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Boile Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Muddy Creek | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch Rattling Creek | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Kreb Gap Run | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Dobson Run | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Rattling Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Carbon Run | 5.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Bear Creek Blue Ribbon | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Leiningers Run | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Chapman Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Plum Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Shamokin Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Coal Run | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Gurdy Run | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Poe Creek | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Boal Gap Run | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Spruce Run | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Moyers Mill Run | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| North Mahanoy Creek | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wetzel Run | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Millers Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Bear Run | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Independence Run | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Locust Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Bennys Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Snow Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Shippens Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Hoffer Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Weikert Run | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Rausch Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Furnace Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Voneida Run | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Swamp Run | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cold Run | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Buffalo Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Rolling Green Run | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Bucks Run | 3.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Hans Yost Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Turkey Run | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Dalmatia Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Boyers Run | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Coral Run | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Henstep Run | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Whitethorn Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Fidlers Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Bartley Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Bull Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Luphers Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| New England Run | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Wohlford Run | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Mitchell Run | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Lick Creek | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Crab Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Phillips Creek | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Barger Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Sealholtz Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Stone Cabin Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Rattling Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Selinsgrove Creek | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| East Branch Rausch Creek | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Aline Creek | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Herrold Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Rattling Creek | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Sheesley Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Nine O'Clock Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kettle Run | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Rock Run | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Smoke Hole Run | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Railroad Creek | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Rausch Creek | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Doc Smith Run | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Canoe Gap Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Mud Run | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Trout Run | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Lost Creek | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Britton Run | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Shale Run | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Run | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Barner Run | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Run | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kehly Run | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Hawks Nest Run | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
490,933 acres in 303 units, which is 53.0% of the 926,844 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another state agency | 414,954 | 85% | 97 |
| State fish and wildlife agency | 45,583 | 9% | 6 |
| State natural-resources agency | 14,279 | 3% | 3 |
| County land | 9,220 | 2% | 50 |
| City and township land | 2,274 | 0% | 106 |
| Local holder not recorded | 1,450 | 0% | 22 |
| Land trust or conservancy | 1,250 | 0% | 5 |
| Holder not recorded | 779 | 0% | 3 |
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.