BirdTrout
Buffalo-Eighteenmile Watershed, New York
1,678 miles of mapped stream across 714 square miles of drainage in Erie, Wyoming counties, in 46 named streams. New York designates 63 of those miles as trout water, on 7 streams.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. On this map the colour is NYSDEC's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water NYSDEC has not typed.
The watershed in numbers
HUC8 04120103 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.
Cold, cool and warm water
NYSDEC classifies every surface water in New York under 6 NYCRR Parts 800-941, and the class is a best usage — what the water is protected for — rather than a temperature. The temperature statement is the (T) or (TS) suffix beside it: the water DEC designates for trout, or for trout spawning, which 6 NYCRR 704.2(b) protects with a 70 °F ceiling on any discharge. That suffix is what this page counts and what the map paints by; the class letter is printed beside it and is not a thermal grade. It covers 5% of this basin's stream miles (89.6 of 1,678); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 89.6 mi (100%)
89.6 of the 89.6 typed miles in this basin — 100% — are cold or cold-transitional water. Every typed reach carries the same class, which is as likely to be the coverage as the water: NYSDEC has typed 5% of it.
Every named stream in the basin
All 46 of them, longest first. 3 have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is NYSDEC's designation of that stream. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Creek | 46.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Cayuga Creek | 44.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Eighteenmile Creek | 35.2 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| East Branch Cazenovia Creek | 24.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cazenovia Creek | 21.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Sister Creek | 21.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| West Branch Cazenovia Creek | 19.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Buffalo Creek | 18.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| South Branch Eighteenmile Creek | 18.5 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Smoke Creek | 16.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Hunter Creek | 14.4 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Smoke Creek | 12.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Delaware Creek | 9.5 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Rythus Creek | 9.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Sister Creek | 8.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Slate Bottom Creek | 8.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Sheldon Creek | 8.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Rush Creek | 8.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Pond Brook | 8.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Buffalo River | 8.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Meadow Creek | 7.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Brown Brook | 7.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Hampton Brook | 6.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Neuman Creek | 6.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Sprague Brook | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Muddy Creek | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Pike Creek | 5.9 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Plum Bottom Creek | 5.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Plum Bottom Creek | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Glade Creek | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Gillett Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Brook | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Bottom Creek | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Fenton Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Bender Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Spencer Brook | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Pipe Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Tannery Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Jennings Creek | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Plato Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| French Brook | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Graff Brook | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Right Branch Cayuga Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Landon Brook | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Crump Brook | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Ebenezer Brook | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
7,496 acres in 5 units, which is 1.6% of the 457,156 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.
| Managing agency | Acres | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| County land | 6,369 | 85% | 2 |
| City and township land | 1,125 | 15% | 2 |
| Another state agency | 2 | 0% | 1 |
The biggest named blocks of it, each with its own page — the streams on that ground, what is open to hunt on it, and where the access sites are.
- County Of Erie Land 4,228.3 ac
- Erie County Lands 3,365.9 ac
- City Of Buffalo Land 1,240.8 ac
- Town Of Cheektowaga Land 526.9 ac
- New York State Lands 21,835.9 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.