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Canadaway Creek, New York
20 mapped river miles, draining 22 square miles, in the Chautauqua Conneaut basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 18.0 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.
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.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 18.0 miles away, at Cattaraugus Creek At Gowanda Ny — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
Thermal classification
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 7.3–0.0 | 7.3 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 7.3 of the 21 miles NHD carries for this stream — 35% 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
- Canadaway Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Canadaway Creek — access, parking and public land
- Canadaway Creek 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 spawning 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 →
Access
1 mapped NYSDEC access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Canadaway Creek Angler Parking (RM 16.1). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
8 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 6,379 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Canadaway Creek Wma | state conservation department | 2,187 |
| Canadaway Creek — State Land, Fishing Access | NYSDEC | 111 |
| Canadaway Creek Nature Sanctuary | state conservation department | 33 |
| County Of Chautauqua Land | county land | 324 |
| Village Of Fredonia Land | city land | 102 |
| Chautauqua County Lands | county land | 655 |
| Canadaway Creek — Public Fishing Rights Easement | NYSDEC | 7 |
| Boutwell Hill State Forest | state conservation department | 2,960 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout spawning waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Beaver Creek 12.6 mi · RM 1.6
- Clinton Brook 2.5 mi · RM 15.1
- Markum Brook 2.3 mi · RM 15.3
Canadaway Creek sits in HUC 8 04120101, the Chautauqua Conneaut basin, and drains 22 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 25 NHD reaches carry the name for 20.6 miles in total — more than the 20.5 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.