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Salmon-Sandy Watershed, New York

2,110 miles of mapped stream across 981 square miles of drainage in Oswego, Jefferson, Lewis counties, in 104 named streams. New York designates 513 of those miles as trout water, on 76 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 04140102 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,110 mi
of mapped stream
3,682 NHD reaches
981 sq mi
drainage area
627,707 acres
81,320 ac
public land
13.0% of the basin · 29 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 38% of this basin's stream miles (792.1 of 2,110); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

792.1 of the 792.1 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 38% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 104 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
Salmon River 42.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sandy Creek 40.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
South Sandy Creek 33.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Creek 28.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Catfish Creek 23.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mad River 23.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Little Salmon River 19.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
South Branch Little Salmon River 19.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Sandy Creek 18.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Skinner Creek 18.2 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Gulf Stream 17.5 untyped — —
Deer Creek 17.2 untyped — —
Little Salmon River 17.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Raystone Creek 17.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 16.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bear Creek 15.5 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Sage Creek 15.4 untyped — —
Cold Brook 14.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaverdam Brook 13.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Snake Creek 12.9 untyped — —
Mill Stream 12.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Sandy Creek 12.3 untyped — —
Abijah Creek 12.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Orwell Creek 12.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Butterfly Creek 12.1 untyped — —
South Branch Grindstone Creek 11.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Grindstone Creek 11.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lindsey Creek 11.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Big Brook 10.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Fork Salmon River 10.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Creek 10.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Salmon River 10.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Grindstone Creek 10.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Prince Brook 9.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Deer Creek 9.7 untyped — —
Fish Creek 9.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pekin Brook 9.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fall Brook 9.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jacobs Creek 8.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Fork Salmon River 8.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Stony Creek 8.8 untyped — —
Grunley Creek 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cottrell Creek 8.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Grindstone Creek 8.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fox Creek 8.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Brook 7.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stebbins Creek 7.0 untyped — —
Beaver Creek 6.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Finnegan Brook 6.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Freeman Creek 6.7 untyped — —
Staplin Creek 6.6 untyped — —
Twomile Creek 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Otter Creek 6.6 untyped — —
Grindstone Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Big Deerlick Creek 6.3 untyped — —
Slide Creek 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pine Meadows Creek 6.1 untyped — —
Pigeon Creek 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Creek 5.8 untyped — —
Taylor Brook 5.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Creek 5.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Brook 5.4 untyped — —
North Branch Mad River 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kibling Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Denning Creek 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wine Creek 4.8 untyped — —
Little Deerlick Creek 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Blind Creek 4.6 untyped — —
Boynton Creek 4.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Castor Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kenny Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spring Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stinson Creek 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Keese Brook 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
South Branch Mad River 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pennock Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beech Creek 3.8 untyped — —
Gillman Creek 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Baker Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mulligan Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Threemile Creek 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Baker Brook 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clora Creek 3.3 untyped — —
Hooker Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
South Branch Lindsey Creek 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Muddy Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Line Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Coey Creek 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pickens Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jacobs Brook 2.7 untyped — —
Rat Creek 2.3 untyped — —
Pine Creek 2.2 untyped — —
Roaring Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crooked Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
McDougal Creek 1.6 untyped — —
North Branch Slide Creek 1.6 untyped — —
Fox Brook 1.6 untyped — —
West Branch Gillman Creek 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Willow Creek 1.5 untyped — —
Cowles Creek 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Malloy Brook 1.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lilypad Creek 1.0 untyped — —
Smith Brook 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Onemile Creek 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

81,320 acres in 29 units, which is 13.0% of the 627,707 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 72,169 89% 23
County land 7,430 9% 4
State park agency 1,721 2% 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.