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Indian River Watershed, New York

1,171 miles of mapped stream across 563 square miles of drainage in Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Lewis counties, in 37 named streams. New York designates 101 of those miles as trout water, on 20 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 04290002 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,171 mi
of mapped stream
2,923 NHD reaches
563 sq mi
drainage area
360,008 acres
20,727 ac
public land
5.8% of the basin · 12 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 13% of this basin's stream miles (147.8 of 1,171); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

147.8 of the 147.8 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 13% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 37 of them, longest first. None has a page of its own yet; all of them 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
Indian River 126.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Black Creek 47.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Black Creek 17.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jewett Creek 16.8 untyped — —
Fish Creek 16.1 untyped — —
Birch Creek 14.7 untyped — —
Rockwell Creek 14.5 untyped — —
Otter Creek 13.3 untyped — —
West Creek 10.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Blanchard Creek 10.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 9.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pleasant Creek 8.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Grass Creek 7.2 untyped — —
Halls Creek 7.0 untyped — —
Dobson Creek 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bonaparte Creek 6.5 untyped — —
Buck Creek 6.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Hunter Creek 5.3 untyped — —
Clark Creek 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Deerlick Creek 4.8 untyped — —
Cold Creek 4.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bostwick Creek 4.1 untyped — —
Weatherhead Creek 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Reynolds Creek 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Soapstone Creek 2.9 untyped — —
Casey Creek 2.7 untyped — —
Pine Creek 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Creek 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Meadows Creek 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dodds Creek 2.6 untyped — —
Second Creek 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tims Creek 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hogsback Creek 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Lake Outlet 2.0 untyped — —
First Creek 0.8 untyped — —
Fourth Creek 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Third Creek 0.7 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

20,727 acres in 12 units, which is 5.8% of the 360,008 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 19,554 94% 10
City and township land 1,173 6% 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.