BirdTrout
Niagara River Watershed, New York
2,105 miles of mapped stream across 1,415 square miles of drainage in Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Wyoming counties, in 51 named streams. New York designates 45 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 04270101 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 4% of this basin's stream miles (78.0 of 2,105); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 78.0 mi (100%)
78.0 of the 78.0 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 4% of it.
Every named stream in the basin
All 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tonawanda Creek | 122.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Saint Lawrence River | 92.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Ellicott Creek | 51.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Niagara River | 42.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Murder Creek | 36.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Mud Creek | 21.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Tonawanda Creek | 19.2 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Ransom Creek | 18.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Black Creek | 16.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Scajaquada Creek | 15.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Bull Creek | 14.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bowen Creek | 14.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Erie Canal | 14.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Cayuga Creek | 12.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Ledge Creek | 12.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Bergholtz Creek | 11.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Gill Creek | 10.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Beeman Creek | 10.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Got Creek | 9.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Stony Brook | 9.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Crooked Creek | 9.3 | untyped | — | — |
| East Fork Tonawanda Creek | 8.7 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Crow Creek | 7.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Frenchman's Creek | 7.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Elevenmile Creek | 7.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Baker Brook | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Donner Brook | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Usshers Creek | 6.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Fish Creek | 6.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Huron Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Woods Creek | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Middlebury Brook | 4.9 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Boyer's Creek | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Spring Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Tunnery Brook | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Spicer Creek | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Sixmile Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Engine Creek | 4.1 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Sawyer Creek | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Gun Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Twomile Creek | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Peck Creek | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Johnson Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Miller Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Durkee Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Black Rock Canal | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Burnt Ship Creek | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Baker Creek | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Sixmile Creek | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Little River | 1.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Wards Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
11,885 acres in 8 units, which is 1.3% of the 905,432 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 | 7,494 | 63% | 2 |
| State park agency | 1,841 | 15% | 1 |
| Local holder not recorded | 1,254 | 11% | 1 |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 660 | 6% | 1 |
| City and township land | 601 | 5% | 2 |
| County land | 35 | 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.
- Tonawanda Wma 5,675.9 ac
- Carlton Hill Mua 2,508.3 ac
- Darien Lakes State Park 1,840.9 ac
- Nature View Park 1,254.3 ac
- Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge 10,807.8 ac
- City Of Buffalo Land 1,240.8 ac
- Town Of Cheektowaga Land 526.9 ac
- County Of Erie Land 4,228.3 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.