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Salmon River Watershed, New York

946 miles of mapped stream across 413 square miles of drainage in Franklin county, in 39 named streams. New York designates 195 of those miles as trout water, on 30 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 04290007 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

946 mi
of mapped stream
2,131 NHD reaches
413 sq mi
drainage area
264,068 acres
35,390 ac
public land
13.4% of the basin · 7 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 32% of this basin's stream miles (306.3 of 946); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

306.3 of the 306.3 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 32% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 39 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
Salmon River 54.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Little Salmon River 40.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Deer Creek 20.7 untyped — —
Hatch Brook 20.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Deer Creek 18.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Farrington Brook 18.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pike Creek 15.5 untyped — —
Duane Stream 13.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Plum Brook 13.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Little Salmon River 11.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Branch Brook 10.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Plumadore Brook 8.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ingraham Stream 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Winslow Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Limekiln Brook 6.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cold Spring Brook 6.2 untyped — —
Develin Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Brook 5.9 untyped — —
Ragged Lake Outlet 5.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Barnes Brook 5.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ruisseau Pike 4.4 untyped — —
Cold Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Townline Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Debar Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fishpole Outlet 3.2 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Elbow Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bell Brook 2.3 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Snake Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Childs Brook 1.9 untyped — —
Plumadore Outlet 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brickyard Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tait Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fender Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Humbug Brook 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clear Brook 1.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rivière aux Saumons 1.1 untyped — —
Tamarack Brook 0.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Brook 0.6 untyped — —
Deer Creek 0.5 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

35,390 acres in 7 units, which is 13.4% of the 264,068 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 35,388 100% 6
Another state agency 2 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.