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Schoharie River Watershed, New York

2,119 miles of mapped stream across 928 square miles of drainage in Schoharie, Greene, Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Delaware, Otsego counties, in 60 named streams. New York designates 249 of those miles as trout water, on 48 streams. The 1 mainstem gauge with a July record read 78.6°F in July.

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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 02020005 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,119 mi
of mapped stream
7,563 NHD reaches
928 sq mi
drainage area
594,007 acres
78.6°F
July water temperature at the gauges
1 mainstem gauge, mean 78.6°F
72,576 ac
public land
12.2% of the basin · 31 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 20% of this basin's stream miles (420.6 of 2,119); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

420.6 of the 420.6 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 20% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 60 of them, longest first. 4 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
Schoharie Creek 97.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Fox Creek 25.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Batavia Kill 25.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
West Creek 25.4 untyped — —
West Kill 24.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cobleskill Creek 23.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bear Kill 18.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
East Kill 18.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Little Schoharie Creek 11.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Panther Creek 11.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Manor Kill 11.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Mine Kill 9.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fly Creek 9.6 untyped — —
Switz Kill 8.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wharton Hollow Creek 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Keyser Kill 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Creek 7.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Platter Kill 7.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Creek 7.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Huntersfield Creek 6.8 untyped — —
Line Creek 6.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
House Creek 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cole Brook 6.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
King Creek 6.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Betty Brook 6.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cripplebush Creek 6.2 untyped — —
Beaverdam Creek 5.0 untyped — —
Little West Kill 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Johnson Hollow Brook 4.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Gooseberry Creek 4.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wilsey Creek 4.3 untyped — —
Stony Brook 4.1 untyped — —
Lewis Creek 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bowman Creek 3.6 untyped — —
Roaring Kill 3.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Louse Kill 3.5 untyped — —
John Chase Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fall Brook 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jump Brook 3.3 untyped — —
Allen Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Roarback Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Heathen Creek 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Halsey Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sawmill Creek 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Irish Creek 2.8 untyped — —
Cook Brook 2.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Roaring Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hunter Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Red Kill 2.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Styles Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beech Ridge Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ox Kill 2.1 untyped — —
Punch Kill 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Schoolhouse Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bennett Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Newton Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hagadone Brook 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Herdman Brook 1.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pettit Branch 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

72,576 acres in 31 units, which is 12.2% of the 594,007 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 67,920 94% 27
City and township land 4,649 6% 3
Another state agency 7 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.