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Ransom Creek, New York
11.5 mapped river miles, draining 51 square miles, in the Niagara River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 11.2 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 11.2 miles away, at Erie (Barge) C Abv Halls Waste Weir At Lockport 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 10.2–0.0 | 10.2 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 10.2 of the 18.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 55% 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
- Ransom Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Ransom Creek — access, parking and public land
- Ransom 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 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, 454 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Clarence Land | city land | 207 |
| Clarence Town Lands | local holder not recorded | 203 |
| Town Of Clarence Land | city land | 43 |
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
1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
Ransom Creek sits in HUC 8 04270101, the Niagara River basin, and drains 51 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 30 NHD reaches carry the name for 18.6 miles in total — more than the 11.5 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.