BirdTrout

Vloman Kill, New York

18.3 mapped river miles, draining 18 square miles, in the Middle Hudson basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 5.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.

Open in BirdTrout Get it on the App Store
Map key
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

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 6.7 miles away, at Hudson River At Albany Ny — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its water-temperature series is empty, and was last stamped 29 April 2026, so no number here comes from it.

64.9 °F
Hudson River At Albany Ny
6.7 mi away · read 30 Sep, 10:30 pm ET
Cool

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 18.3–12.2 6.1 cold —

NYSDEC has classified 6.1 of the 18.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 33% 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

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, 777 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Five Rivers Environmental Education Center state conservation department 447
Town Of Bethlehem Land city land 280
Henry Hudson Town Park local holder not recorded 50

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.

Vloman Kill sits in HUC 8 02020006, the Middle Hudson basin, and drains 18 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 28 NHD reaches carry the name for 18.7 miles in total — more than the 18.3 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.