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Chemung River Watershed, New York

1,741 miles of mapped stream across 1,212 square miles of drainage in Steuben, Chemung, Schuyler, Livingston counties, in 78 named streams. New York designates 175 of those miles as trout water, on 26 streams.

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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 every stream in the basin

50°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 02050105 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,741 mi
of mapped stream
3,618 NHD reaches
1,212 sq mi
drainage area
775,549 acres
28,160 ac
public land
3.6% of the basin · 17 units

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 15% of this basin's stream miles (269.0 of 1,741); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

269.0 of the 269.0 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 15% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 78 of them, longest first. 4 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
Cohocton River 64.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Chemung River 30.9 untyped — —
Fivemile Creek 25.6 untyped — —
Newtown Creek 25.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Meads Creek 18.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Creek 18.4 untyped — —
Post Creek 17.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sing Sing Creek 15.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wynkoop Creek 15.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Baldwin Creek 15.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Campbell Creek 14.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stocking Creek 13.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Neils Creek 12.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Goff Creek 11.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tenmile Creek 11.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Run 10.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Michigan Creek 9.6 untyped — —
North Branch Newtown Creek 9.5 untyped — —
Mudlick Creek 9.1 untyped — —
Cuthrie Run 8.6 untyped — —
Tobehanna Creek 8.5 untyped — —
Cutler Creek 8.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hendy Creek 7.9 untyped — —
Salmon Creek 7.6 untyped — —
Trout Run 7.3 untyped — —
Twelvemile Creek 7.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Creek 7.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Castle Creek 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Curtis Creek 6.2 untyped — —
Bulkley Creek 6.2 untyped — —
Wolf Run 6.1 untyped — —
Goldsmith Creek 6.0 untyped — —
Waldo Creek 5.7 untyped — —
Whisky Creek 5.7 untyped — —
McNutt Run 5.5 untyped — —
Jackson Creek 5.5 untyped — —
Smith Run 5.4 untyped — —
Sinclair Creek 5.3 untyped — —
Caton Creek 5.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hoffman Brook 5.3 untyped — —
Latta Brook 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Tobehanna Creek 4.9 untyped — —
Culver Creek 4.7 untyped — —
Gillette Creek 4.7 untyped — —
Mallory Creek 4.7 untyped — —
Pine Creek 4.6 untyped — —
Narrows Creek 4.5 untyped — —
Reynolds Creek 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kirkwood Creek 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Borden Creek 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Berry Creek 3.9 untyped — —
Chamberlain Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Maxwell Creek 3.7 untyped — —
Knight Creek 3.7 untyped — —
Madison Creek 3.7 untyped — —
Bailey Creek 3.5 untyped — —
Beaver Brook 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cotton Creek 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Creek 3.4 untyped — —
Birch Creek 3.4 untyped — —
Erwin Creek 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gulf Creek 3.0 untyped — —
Deer Lick Run 2.8 untyped — —
Hodgmans Creek 2.6 untyped — —
Gorton Creek 2.6 untyped — —
Stanton Creek 2.5 untyped — —
Winfield Creek 2.5 untyped — —
Page Brook 2.3 untyped — —
Barnard Creek 2.3 untyped — —
Coldbrook Creek 2.2 untyped — —
Chemung Feeder Canal 1.7 untyped — —
Minnow Creek 1.1 untyped — —
Mud Ditch 1.0 untyped — —
Diven Creek 1.0 untyped — —
Badger Creek 1.0 untyped — —
Stony Run 0.9 untyped — —
Seeley Creek 0.9 untyped — —
Tioga River 0.2 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

28,160 acres in 17 units, which is 3.6% of the 775,549 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
State conservation department 26,400 94% 14
County land 1,030 4% 1
State park agency 730 3% 2

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.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.