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Tioga River Watershed, New York
1,109 miles of mapped stream across 1,384 square miles of drainage in Steuben, Allegany counties, in 61 named streams. New York designates 46 of those miles as trout water, on 11 streams.
Open in BirdTrout50°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 02050104 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.
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 7% of this basin's stream miles (78.0 of 1,109); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 78.0 mi (100%)
78.0 of the 78.0 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 7% of it.
Every named stream in the basin
All 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canisteo River | 65.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Tuscarora Creek | 26.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Bennetts Creek | 21.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Canacadea Creek | 16.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| North Branch Tuscarora Creek | 15.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Tioga River | 13.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Goodhue Creek | 11.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Karr Valley Creek | 10.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Troups Creek | 10.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Creek | 10.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Purdy Creek | 9.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Tracy Creek | 8.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Colonel Bills Creek | 7.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Elk Creek | 7.4 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Tuscarora Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| South Branch Glendening Creek | 7.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Crosby Creek | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| North Branch Glendening Creek | 6.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Talbot Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Tannery Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Slate Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| McHenry Valley Creek | 5.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Stephens Creek | 5.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Seeley Creek | 5.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Fall Creek | 5.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cunningham Creek | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Lime Kiln Creek | 4.8 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Watson Creek | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Gravel Run | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Carrington Creek | 4.4 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Helmer Creek | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Rock Creek | 4.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Milwaukee Creek | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| East Lick Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Mulholland Creek | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Canatoga Creek | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Marsh Ditch | 3.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Catherine Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Ryers Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Baker Creek | 2.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Myers Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Church Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Morgan Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Rock Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Onawasa Creek | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Chauncey Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Colby Creek | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Reuben Brook | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Cole Creek | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Tuttle Creek | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Hammer Creek | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Honey Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Peak Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Stowell Creek | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Red Spring Run | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Dennis Creek | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Sugar Creek | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Two Bridge Run | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Glendening Creek | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Brickyard Creek | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Steamtown Creek | 0.0 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
17,646 acres in 13 units, which is 2.0% of the 885,952 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 | 17,546 | 99% | 12 |
| County land | 100 | 1% | 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.
- Bully Hill State Forest 3,520.3 ac
- Turnpike State Forest 4,935.7 ac
- Klipnocky State Forest 2,622.7 ac
- Karr Valley Creek State Forest 1,914.0 ac
- Canacadea State Forest 1,631.0 ac
- Cameron State Forest 1,964.6 ac
- Erwin Wma 2,506.9 ac
- Gas Springs State Forest 2,275.3 ac
- Hiltonville State Forest 1,007.2 ac
- Palmer'S Pond State Forest 3,506.8 ac
- Allegany County Lands 1,934.7 ac
- Phillips Creek State Forest 2,730.6 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.