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Oatka Creek, New York
15.7 mapped river miles, draining 65 square miles, in the Lower Genesee basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 27.5 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 27.5 miles away, at Erie(Barge)canal(W Of Genesee R)at Rochester 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 15.7–0.0 | 18.1 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 18.1 of the 65 miles NHD carries for this stream — 28% 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
- Oatka Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- Oatka Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class B — swimming and contact recreation and Class C — fishing. 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 →
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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Pearl Creek 6.9 mi · RM 0.0
- Village Brook 3.4 mi · RM 5.4
- Cascade Brook 2.0 mi · RM 5.9
Oatka Creek sits in HUC 8 04130003, the Lower Genesee basin, and drains 65 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 143 NHD reaches carry the name for 65.3 miles in total — more than the 15.7 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.