BirdTrout
Lower Genesee River Watershed, New York
2,342 miles of mapped stream across 1,067 square miles of drainage in Livingston, Monroe, Genesee, Ontario, Wyoming counties, in 50 named streams. New York designates 75 of those miles as trout water, on 13 streams. The 2 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 76.6 and 77.9°F in July.
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 04130003 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 (116.4 of 2,342); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 116.4 mi (100%)
116.4 of the 116.4 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 50 of them, longest first. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesee River | 72.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Oatka Creek | 65.3 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Black Creek | 61.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Honeoye Creek | 42.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Conesus Creek | 21.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Creek | 18.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Hemlock Outlet | 17.5 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source |
| Spring Creek | 15.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Spring Brook | 15.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Beards Creek | 14.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Black Creek | 12.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Conesus Creek | 12.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bebee Creek | 12.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Beards Creek | 11.3 | untyped | — | — |
| White Creek | 10.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Browns Creek | 9.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Creek | 9.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Honeoye Inlet | 9.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Canadice Outlet | 9.0 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source |
| Mud Creek | 9.0 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Springwater Creek | 8.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| McMillan Creek | 8.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Hotel Creek | 8.7 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Black Creek | 8.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kinney Creek | 7.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Bidwells Creek | 7.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Bigelow Creek | 7.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Conesus Inlet | 7.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Pearl Creek | 6.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Fall Brook | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Limekiln Creek | 6.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Christie Creek | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Robins Brook | 6.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Cotton Creek | 6.1 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Whetstone Brook | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Dugan Creek | 5.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| North McMillan Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Relyea Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Jaycox Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Erie Canal | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Salt Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Wilkins Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| South Fork Jaycox Creek | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| North Fork Jaycox Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Village Brook | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Bairds Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Brook | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Cascade Brook | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Kelly Brook | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
17,984 acres in 12 units, which is 2.6% of the 682,891 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 | 10,887 | 61% | 4 |
| County land | 4,413 | 25% | 3 |
| State park agency | 1,892 | 11% | 3 |
| City and township land | 695 | 4% | 1 |
| Another state agency | 97 | 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.
- Hemlock-Canadice State Forest 7,067.6 ac
- Honeoye Inlet Wma 2,654.5 ac
- County Of Monroe Land 6,326.8 ac
- Black Creek Park 1,503.9 ac
- Harriet Hollister Spencer Recreation Area 1,597.9 ac
- Conesus Inlet Wma 1,143.5 ac
- City Of Rochester Land 1,613.4 ac
- Genesee Valley Greenway State Park 1,161.4 ac
- County Of Monroe Parks Land 2,303.1 ac
- New York State Lands 21,835.9 ac
- Carlton Hill Mua 2,508.3 ac
- Letchworth State Park 14,598.5 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.