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Deer River, New York
37 mapped river miles, draining 75 square miles, in the St Regis 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 36.9–13.0 | 35.6 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 35.6 of the 64 miles NHD carries for this stream — 56% 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
- Deer River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Deer River — access, parking and public land
- Deer River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing, and Class D — fishing, natural conditions limit the fishery. 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 →
Access
3 mapped NYSDEC access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Deer River Angler Parking (RM 26.4), Deer River Angler Parking (RM 22.9), Deer River Angler Parking (RM 21.3). 3 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 15,308 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Deer River State Forest | state conservation department | 12,893 |
| Deer River — Public Fishing Rights Easement | NYSDEC | 309 |
| Deer River — State Land, Fishing Access | NYSDEC | 231 |
| Deer River Primitive Area | state conservation department | 1,872 |
| Deer River — Municipal Land, Fishing Access | Municipal | 2 |
| Lawrenceville Fire Department Lands | local holder not recorded | 1 |
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
1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Kingston Brook 5.9 mi · RM 7.2
Deer River sits in HUC 8 04290006, the St Regis basin, and drains 75 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 155 NHD reaches carry the name for 63.9 miles in total — more than the 36.9 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.