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Kinderhook Creek, New York
15.4 mapped river miles, draining 112 square miles, in the Middle Hudson basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 14.6 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 17.2 miles away, at Hudson River At Albany Ny — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 29 April 2026, so no number here comes from it.
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 15.4–13.0 | 33.3 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 33.3 of the 52 miles NHD carries for this stream — 64% 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
- Kinderhook Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Kinderhook Creek — access, parking and public land
- Kinderhook 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, 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
6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 93 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Village Of Valatie Land | city land | 39 |
| Pachaquack Preserve | city land | 15 |
| Stuyvesant Town Of Land | city land | 0 |
| Unknown Park | city land | 15 |
| Kinderhook Village Lands | local holder not recorded | 3 |
| Town Of Stockport Land | city land | 20 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout spawning waters, 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
5 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Valatie Kill 20.9 mi · RM 10.1
- Stony Kill 19.6 mi · RM 15.4
- Claverack Creek 18.6 mi · RM 0.0
- Kline Kill 11.3 mi · RM 13.0
- Stockport Creek 3.0 mi · RM 0.0
Kinderhook Creek sits in HUC 8 02020006, the Middle Hudson basin, and drains 112 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 116 NHD reaches carry the name for 52.3 miles in total — more than the 15.4 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.