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Beaver River, New York
14.9 mapped river miles, draining 319 square miles, in the Black basin watershed.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
Thermal classification
There is no USGS gauge within 40 miles of this stream in the record this site holds, so there is no live temperature on this page and no measured July mean. Everything below the bar is NYSDEC's own classification of the water.
NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | NYSDEC type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 14.9–0.0 | 40.7 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 40.7 of the 58 miles NHD carries for this stream — 70% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Beaver River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Beaver River — access, parking and public land
- Beaver River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class B — swimming and contact recreation and Class C — fishing. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.
NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 13,532 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Watson's East Triangle Wild Forest | state conservation department | 13,532 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Fish Creek 22.7 mi · RM 11.1
- Alder Creek 21.8 mi · RM 14.9
- Balsam Creek 10.5 mi · RM 0.3
- Sammys Creek 0.9 mi · RM 8.7
Beaver River sits in HUC 8 04140301, the Black basin, and drains 319 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 206 NHD reaches carry the name for 58.2 miles in total — more than the 14.9 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.