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Raquette River Watershed, New York

2,434 miles of mapped stream across 1,259 square miles of drainage in St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Franklin, Essex counties, in 81 named streams. New York designates 264 of those miles as trout water, on 54 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 04290005 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,434 mi
of mapped stream
7,001 NHD reaches
1,259 sq mi
drainage area
805,794 acres
301,492 ac
public land
37.4% of the basin · 25 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 23% of this basin's stream miles (551.0 of 2,434); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

551.0 of the 551.0 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 23% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 81 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
Raquette River 158.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Trout Brook 31.7 untyped — —
Dead Creek 29.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jordan River 28.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Plum Brook 26.5 untyped — —
Moose Creek 24.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cold Brook 22.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Squeak Brook 20.6 untyped — —
Cold River 17.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bear Brook 16.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Parkhurst Brook 13.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Brook 13.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bog Stream 13.0 untyped — —
Joe Indian Inlet 12.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bog River 12.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pine Brook 11.9 untyped — —
Sucker Brook 11.2 untyped — —
Ampersand Brook 10.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Big Brook 9.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hutchins Creek 9.8 untyped — —
Earls Creek 9.6 untyped — —
Roaring Brook 9.4 untyped — —
South Inlet 9.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Boulder Brook 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mountain Brook 8.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Calkins Brook 8.6 untyped — —
South Branch Bear Brook 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Brook 8.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Squeak Brook 7.9 untyped — —
Brandreth Lake Outlet 7.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Round Lake Outlet 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Potter Brook 6.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
O'Malley Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stafford Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Garfield Brook 6.6 untyped — —
Loon Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lost Brook 6.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sugar Creek 6.3 untyped — —
Little Cold Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ward Brook 5.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Willis Brook 5.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Warm Brook 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bridge Brook 4.9 untyped — —
Calahan Brook 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Brook 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Marion River 4.6 untyped — —
North Bay Stream 4.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ellis Brook 4.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hall Creek 4.0 untyped — —
Felton Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shaw Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Inlet Moose Pond 3.6 untyped — —
Ermine Brook 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Salmon River 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Inlet 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brandy Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Browns Tract Inlet 3.3 untyped — —
Seward Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sandy Creek 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Thirtyfive Outlet 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kildare Outlet 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jenkins Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Inlet Brook 3.0 untyped — —
Death Brook 2.9 untyped — —
Owls Head Pond Outlet 2.8 untyped — —
Mud Pond Outlet 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Grindstone Brook 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Mountain Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sibley Brook 2.0 untyped — —
Sperry Brook 2.0 untyped — —
Windfall Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crane Valley Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Harvey Brook 1.9 untyped — —
Rainbow Brook 1.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cedar Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stillman Brook 1.6 untyped — —
South Pond Outlet 1.5 untyped — —
McCuen Pond Outlet 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sterling Pond Outlet 1.2 untyped — —
Welch Brook 0.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lily Pad Brook 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

301,492 acres in 25 units, which is 37.4% of the 805,794 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 298,745 99% 23
County land 1,620 1% 1
State park agency 1,127 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.

Neighbouring watersheds

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