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East Branch Cold Spring Creek, New York
10.1 mapped river miles, draining 19 square miles, in the Upper Delaware basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 5.4 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 5.4 miles away, at West Branch Delaware River — 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 9.8–0.0 | 9.8 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 9.8 of the 10.2 miles NHD carries for this stream — 97% 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
- East Branch Cold Spring Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to East Branch Cold Spring Creek — access, parking and public land
- East Branch Cold Spring Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class C — fishing. 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 →
Public land on the river
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 10,110 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Mill State Forest | state conservation department | 6,046 |
| Beals Pond State Forest | state conservation department | 1,114 |
| Arctic China State Forest | state conservation department | 2,950 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Cold Spring Creek 7.4 mi · RM 0.0
- Steam Mill Branch 4.8 mi · RM 5.8
East Branch Cold Spring Creek sits in HUC 8 02040101, the Upper Delaware basin, and drains 19 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 16 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.2 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.