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Chenango River Watershed, New York

3,132 miles of mapped stream across 1,607 square miles of drainage in Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Broome, Onondaga, Oneida counties, in 139 named streams. New York designates 571 of those miles as trout water, on 104 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 02050102 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

3,132 mi
of mapped stream
9,091 NHD reaches
1,607 sq mi
drainage area
1,028,720 acres
112,822 ac
public land
11.0% of the basin · 48 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 29% of this basin's stream miles (903.8 of 3,132); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

903.8 of the 903.8 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 29% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 139 of them, longest first. 7 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
Chenango River 91.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Otselic River 56.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tioughnioga River 34.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Sangerfield River 30.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Genegantslet Creek 27.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Tioughnioga River 23.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Page Brook 22.4 untyped — —
Pleasant Brook 21.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Cold Brook 20.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Canasawacta Creek 19.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Tioughnioga River 15.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Creek 15.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Castle Creek 13.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Halfway Brook 13.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Brook 13.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brakel Creek 13.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cheningo Creek 13.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 12.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Merrill Creek 12.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Canasawacta Creek 12.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bowman Creek 12.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Payne Brook 12.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dudley Creek 12.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fly Meadow Creek 12.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Tioughnioga Creek 11.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Osborne Creek 11.1 untyped — —
Labrador Creek 10.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Strongs Brook 10.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Factory Brook 10.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Middle Branch Tioughnioga Creek 9.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gridley Creek 9.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Handsome Brook 9.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Eaton Brook 9.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Five Streams 9.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jennings Creek 9.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gee Brook 9.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Otter Creek 8.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Creek 8.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Red Brook 8.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ticknor Brook 8.4 untyped — —
Hunts Creek 8.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ludlow Creek 8.3 untyped — —
Wheeler Brook 8.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Tioughnioga Creek 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cold Spring Brook 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ockerman Brook 8.1 untyped — —
Thompson Creek 7.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tillotson Creek 7.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
South Lebanon Brook 7.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pond Brook 7.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Eddy Brook 7.4 untyped — —
Ashbell Brook 6.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kenney Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bradley Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Indian Brook 6.4 untyped — —
Padget Brook 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pond Creek 6.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Electric Light Stream 6.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lyon Brook 6.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Spring Brook 6.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fabius Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mead Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Callahan Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Turner Creek 5.9 untyped — —
Kedron Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Albright Creek 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Glen Brook 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mad Brook 5.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Culver Creek 5.6 untyped — —
Fly Creek 5.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brooks Creek 5.6 untyped — —
Middletown Brook 5.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gilmore Brook 5.4 untyped — —
Potato Creek 5.3 untyped — —
Haights Creek 5.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stone Mill Brook 5.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Tioughnioga Creek 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mann Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Smith Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mallory Brook 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hawley Brook 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hills Creek 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lebanon Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Creek 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
The Old Fly 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ballyhack Creek 4.7 untyped — —
Blue Creek 4.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Johnson Creek 4.6 untyped — —
Balsam Creek 4.5 untyped — —
Bull Creek 4.4 untyped — —
Gilbert Creek 4.4 untyped — —
Otselic Creek 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Glen Castle Creek 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crooked Brook 4.1 untyped — —
Chalker Creek 4.1 untyped — —
Maxon Creek 4.0 untyped — —
Place Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Number Six Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Phelps Creek 4.0 untyped — —
Kattell Creek 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wells Creek 3.9 untyped — —
Mosquito Creek 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Landers Creek 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Willet Creek 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Edgerton Brook 3.8 untyped — —
Kingsley Brook 3.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Birdsall Brook 3.7 untyped — —
Ransford Creek 3.6 untyped — —
Morgan Hill Creek 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hunt Creek 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Whapanaka Brook 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Muller Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bucks Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Maybury Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Porter Creek 3.4 untyped — —
Bear Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shapley Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Barry Run 3.1 untyped — —
Glen Road Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shackham Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Brook 2.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Callan Creek 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Forty Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cheshire Creek 2.8 untyped — —
Alder Meadow Brook 2.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Thompson Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clark Creek 2.4 untyped — —
Glading Brook 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pritchard Brook 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Thomas Creek 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Weeks Brook 2.2 untyped — —
Whaupaunaucau Creek 2.2 untyped — —
Cole Brook 2.1 untyped — —
Brandywine Creek 2.0 untyped — —
Cookhouse Creek 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Miller Brook 1.7 untyped — —
Peppermint Brook 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Coit Brook 1.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Reservoir Creek 1.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

112,822 acres in 48 units, which is 11.0% of the 1,028,720 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 104,476 93% 41
County land 2,746 2% 3
Another state agency 2,291 2% 1
State park agency 2,237 2% 2
Designation overlay 1,072 1% 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.

Neighbouring watersheds

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