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South Sandy Creek, New York

19.8 mapped river miles, draining 76 square miles, in the Salmon River basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 34.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish

USGS gauge — live water temperature

Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

58 64 70

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 gauge, and why there is no reading from it

The nearest gauge, 34.1 miles away at Oswego River At Lock 7, Oswego Ny, is not reporting water temperature: its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 7 October 2024. A stopped gauge repeats its last value in silence, so there is no live temperature here. What is below is modelled from the years that gauge did report: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 4-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, ±2.2 °F. The shape of the week at that gauge, not a thermometer in this stream.

Thermal classification

NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.

NYSDEC has classified 11.6 of the 34 miles NHD carries for this stream — 34% 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

• South Sandy Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to South Sandy Creek — access, parking and public land
• South Sandy 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

7 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 14,680 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

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

4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• Abijah Creek 12.1 mi · RM 8.5
• Grunley Creek 8.8 mi · RM 11.9
• Pigeon Creek 5.8 mi · RM 17.4
• Clora Creek 3.3 mi · RM 12.0

South Sandy Creek sits in HUC 8 04140102, the Salmon River basin, and drains 76 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 82 NHD reaches carry the name for 33.7 miles in total — more than the 19.8 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.

• Bear Creek 3.9 mi
• Stony Creek 7.6 mi
• Salmon River 8.2 mi
• North Branch Little Salmon River 13.5 mi
• Little Salmon River 14.1 mi
• South Branch Little Salmon River 15.1 mi