Bear Creek Lake
Waterway Information
Identity & Location
- Waterway Name
- Bear Creek Lake
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County / Counties
- Luzerne
- Hydrologic Class
- Standing water
- Waterway Type
- Lake
- Map Location
- 41.179187, -75.755666
Fishing Access
- Public Fishing Access
- Unknown
Sources & Method
Sources used for Pennsylvania Waterways
IonaFish compiles Waterway information from public and government sources, geographic data, fisheries information, and reviewed research. Information is normalized and presented in IonaFish's fisherman-focused format.
- Direct active production sources — Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC)PFBC Waterway, fisheries, stocking, regulation, verified access, and open-fishing records that actively supply final Pennsylvania facts.
- Supporting identity and geography — GNIS and USGSFederal names, identifiers, and geographic support only where actually bound to a final Waterway.
- Legacy provenance — historical NHD and retired hydrography identifiersRetained on historical records where applicable; these are not active statewide coverage sources.
- Bounded local corroborationCounty, municipal, park, authority, and other local public sources only where they directly support a reviewed record.
- Review methodology — reviewed geographic and map researchUsed to reconcile identity and access locations as a review method, not as an authoritative source family.
- IonaFish normalizationIonaFish reconciles source facts into canonical Waterway identities, normalized terminology, and fisherman-focused presentation.
This state-level list describes sources used across the Waterway research and mapping workflow. Not every source contributed to every individual Waterway.