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Oneida River Watershed, New York

2,823 miles of mapped stream across 1,498 square miles of drainage in Oneida, Madison, Oswego, Onondaga, Lewis counties, in 128 named streams. New York designates 684 of those miles as trout water, on 100 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 04140202 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,823 mi
of mapped stream
6,399 NHD reaches
1,498 sq mi
drainage area
958,607 acres
57,097 ac
public land
6.0% of the basin · 40 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 40% of this basin's stream miles (1129.7 of 2,823); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1129.7 of the 1129.7 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 40% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 128 of them, longest first. 6 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
Chittenango Creek 59.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Fish Creek 47.2 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Oneida River 40.5 untyped — —
West Branch Fish Creek 39.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Limestone Creek 38.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Oneida Creek 37.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Butternut Creek 32.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Creek 28.4 untyped — —
Fish Creek 27.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wood Creek 26.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little River 24.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cowaselon Creek 23.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sconondoa Creek 23.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mad River 20.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Black Creek 19.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Canada Creek 19.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Scriba Creek 18.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Erie Canal 18.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Creek 17.3 untyped — —
Canaseraga Creek 16.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Point Rock Creek 15.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sixmile Creek 14.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Florence Creek 12.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Furnace Creek 12.8 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Caughdenoy Creek 12.6 untyped — —
Big Bay Creek 11.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sucker Brook 11.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Creek 11.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brandy Brook 11.3 untyped — —
West Branch Limestone Creek 11.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cobb Brook 10.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Taylor Creek 10.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Canastota Creek 9.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Potter Creek 9.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bell Creek 9.4 untyped — —
Burk Creek 9.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pringle Creek 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pools Brook 8.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Limestone Creek 7.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Cold Brook 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hall Brook 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Bay Creek 7.2 untyped — —
Threemile Creek 7.0 untyped — —
Mead Creek 7.0 untyped — —
Broad Brook 6.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sash Factory Creek 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bishop Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cold Spring Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Drum Creek 6.5 untyped — —
Beaver Brook 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clockville Creek 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sevenmile Creek 6.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Alder Creek 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rush Creek 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crippen Creek 5.9 untyped — —
Volmer Creek 5.8 untyped — —
Frederick Creek 5.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Cody Brook 5.5 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Youngs Creek 5.5 untyped — —
Owlville Creek 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Negro Brook 5.2 untyped — —
Meadow Brook 5.2 untyped — —
South Branch Little River 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Emmons Brook 5.1 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Blue Creek 5.1 untyped — —
Crandell Creek 5.1 untyped — —
Indian Camp Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cascades Creek 4.9 untyped — —
Mud Brook 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shaver Creek 4.8 untyped — —
Murray Brook 4.7 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Fall Brook 4.6 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Dakin Creek 4.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Slocum Creek 4.5 untyped — —
Beaver Meadow Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Christian Brook 4.3 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Smith Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Little River 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Vly Creek 4.2 untyped — —
Spellicy Brook 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Big Brook 4.0 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Wetmor Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crandall Creek 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dirreen Creek 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Roaring Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Perry Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Munger Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Finnegan Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Fish Creek 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gardner Creek 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dykeman Creek 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Buxton Creek 3.6 untyped — —
Hyatt Branch 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wells Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Maloney Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spring Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pond Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Powlish Pond Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dutch Settlement Creek 3.1 untyped — —
Thompsons Branch 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fields Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shanty Creek 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stephens Creek 3.0 untyped — —
Searles Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sullivan Brook 2.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Brockway Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rowell Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mack Brook 2.7 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Mill Stream 2.7 untyped — —
Heron Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wickwire Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Meadow Creek 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pigeon Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Brook 2.5 untyped — —
Kelly Creek 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Miller Creek 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Deep Creek 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lake Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sulphur Spring Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Finn Brook 1.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Trout Brook 1.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hennesey Brook 1.8 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Poth Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bullhead Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lydiatt Creek 1.7 untyped — —
Moore Meadow Stream 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Porter Brook 1.3 untyped — —
Gorton Brook 1.1 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

57,097 acres in 40 units, which is 6.0% of the 958,607 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 49,127 86% 29
State park agency 5,116 9% 3
County land 2,125 4% 5
City and township land 720 1% 1
Another state agency 9 0% 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.