BirdTrout
Upper Delaware River Watershed, Pennsylvania
845 miles of mapped stream across 1,190 square miles of drainage in Wayne, Pike counties, in 52 named streams. Pennsylvania designates 217 of those miles as trout water, on 33 streams. The 3 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 68.8 and 73.3°F in July.
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 02040101 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 72% of this basin's stream miles (610.6 of 845); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 597.9 mi (98%)
- Warm 12.8 mi (2%)
597.9 of the 610.6 typed miles in this basin — 98% — are cold or cold-transitional water. The dominant class is cold.
Every named stream in the basin
All 52 of them, longest first. 9 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 | 57.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Equinunk Creek | 18.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Masthope Creek | 12.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| North Branch Calkins Creek | 11.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| West Branch Delaware River | 11.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Little Equinunk Creek | 10.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Hankins Creek | 9.3 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Calkins Creek | 9.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Crooked Creek | 7.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Beaverdam Creek | 7.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Shehawken Creek | 7.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Sherman Creek | 6.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Balls Creek | 6.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Kinneyville Creek | 6.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Factory Creek | 6.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Hollister Creek | 6.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Rattlesnake Creek | 5.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Pea Brook | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Hoolihan Brook | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Roods Creek | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Sunny Brook | 4.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Cooley Creek | 4.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Mitchell Pond Brook | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Beach Lake Creek | 4.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Laurel Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Humphries Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Bouchoux Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Westcolang Creek | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Starboard Creek | 3.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Riley Creek | 3.9 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Abe Lord Creek | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Schoolhouse Creek | 3.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Stockport Creek | 3.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Salt River Brook | 3.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Grassy Swamp Brook | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Narrow Falls Brook | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Star Creek | 2.8 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Faulkner Brook | 2.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Blue Mill Stream | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Weston Brook | 2.5 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Hiawatha Creek | 2.4 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Peggy Run | 2.1 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| East Branch Delaware River | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Tarbox Brook | 1.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Wolf Lake Run | 1.7 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Travis Brook | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Equinunk Creek | 1.3 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Calkins Creek | 1.0 | Cold | — | Cold Water Fishes |
| Basket Creek | 0.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Sands Creek | 0.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Callicoon Creek | 0.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Tenmile River | 0.0 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
0 acres in 4 units. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGC | 0 | 0% | 4 |
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.