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Red Creek, New York
11.5 mapped river miles, draining 48 square miles, in the Finger Lakes basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 20.6 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 20.6 miles away, at Irondequoit Cr Above Blossom Rd Near 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 0.0–0.0 | 0.6 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 0.6 of the 29 miles NHD carries for this stream — 2% 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
- Red Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to Red Creek — access, parking and public land
- Red Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing, and Class D — fishing, natural conditions limit the fishery. 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 →
Access
1 mapped NYSDEC access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Erie Canal At Palmyra (RM 1.7). 0 walk-in, 1 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 31 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Walworth Park Land | city land | 31 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Ganargua Creek 33.6 mi · RM 0.0
- Black Creek 22.7 mi · RM 7.9
Red Creek sits in HUC 8 04140201, the Finger Lakes basin, and drains 48 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 43 NHD reaches carry the name for 28.7 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.