About this river
Mahoning Creek is a 20.0 mile river near Yellow Creek Trout Inc in Pennsylvania. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Mahoning Creek at Punxsutawney, PA (site 03034000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 6. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1939 to 2026
Mahoning Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 387 cfs, and lowest in September, at 50 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 13,200 cfs, in 1972.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 223 | 121 to 401 | |
| February | 244 | 135 to 457 | |
| March | 387 | 266 to 650 | |
| April | 324 | 225 to 527 | |
| May | 234 | 141 to 377 | |
| June | 127 | 81 to 230 | |
| July | 69 | 46 to 133 | |
| August | 53 | 35 to 107 | |
| September | 50 | 31 to 98 | |
| October | 59 | 34 to 127 | |
| November | 129 | 70 to 253 | |
| December | 235 | 134 to 425 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 87 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Mahoning Creek at Punxsutawney, PA (site 03034000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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