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Mongaup Creek, New York
6.6 mapped river miles, draining 11 square miles, in the East Branch Delaware basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 6.5 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 6.5 miles away, at Willowemoc Creek Nr Livingston Manor 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 4.4–0.0 | 4.4 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 4.4 of the 6.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 67% 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
- Mongaup Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Mongaup Creek — access, parking and public land
- Mongaup 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 →
Access
2 mapped NYSDEC access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Mongaup Creek Angler Parking (RM 1.7), Mongaup Creek Angler Parking (RM 1.4). 2 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 49,406 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Willowemoc Wild Forest | state conservation department | 14,086 |
| Mongaup Pond Campground | state conservation department | 683 |
| Debruce Environmental Education Camp | state conservation department | 375 |
| Mongaup Creek — State Land, Fishing Access | NYSDEC | 62 |
| Big Indian Wilderness | state conservation department | 34,200 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Willowemoc Creek 29.6 mi · RM 0.0
- Sucker Brook 2.3 mi · RM 4.6
Mongaup Creek sits in HUC 8 02040102, the East Branch Delaware basin, and drains 11 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 18 NHD reaches carry the name for 6.6 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.