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North Branch Callicoon Creek, New York
10.0 mapped river miles, draining 26 square miles, in the Upper Delaware basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 4.8 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 4.8 miles away, at Callicoon Creek At Callicoon 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 10.0–0.0 | 10.3 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 10.3 of the 10.4 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% 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
- North Branch Callicoon Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to North Branch Callicoon Creek — access, parking and public land
- North Branch Callicoon 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
3 mapped NYSDEC access sites within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: North Branch Callicoon Creek Angler Parking (RM 4.6), North Branch Callicoon Creek Angler Parking (RM 2.3), North Branch Callicoon Creek Angler Parking (RM 1.9). 3 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 278 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| North Branch Callicoon Creek — Public Fishing Rights Easement | NYSDEC | 260 |
| North Branch Callicoon Creek — Municipal Land, Fishing Access | Municipal | 18 |
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.
- Buck Brook 5.2 mi · RM 3.9
- Calkins Creek 4.7 mi · RM 0.7
- The Gulf 3.9 mi · RM 10.0
- Sand Pond Outlet 3.7 mi · RM 10.0
- Tyler Brook 3.5 mi · RM 2.6
North Branch Callicoon Creek sits in HUC 8 02040101, the Upper Delaware basin, and drains 26 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 35 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.4 miles in total — more than the 10.0 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.