BirdTrout
Upper Allegheny River Watershed, New York
1,920 miles of mapped stream across 2,591 square miles of drainage in Cattaraugus, Allegany, Chautauqua counties, in 91 named streams. New York designates 221 of those miles as trout water, on 53 streams. The 1 mainstem gauge with a July record read 74.2°F in July.
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 05010001 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 18% of this basin's stream miles (348.9 of 1,920); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 348.9 mi (100%)
348.9 of the 348.9 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 18% of it.
Every named stream in the basin
All 91 of them, longest first. 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny River | 46.0 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Ischua Creek | 33.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Great Valley Creek | 20.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cold Spring Creek | 17.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Dodge Creek | 16.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Wrights Creek | 15.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Little Valley Creek | 15.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Red House Brook | 14.8 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Haskell Creek | 14.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Oil Creek | 13.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Brokenstraw Creek | 11.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Forks Creek | 10.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Rawson Creek | 9.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Gates Creek | 9.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Beaver Meadows Creek | 9.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| East Branch Little Brokenstraw Creek | 9.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Chipmunk Creek | 9.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Olean Creek | 8.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Tunungwant Creek | 8.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Fivemile Creek | 8.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Ninemile Creek | 7.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Wolf Creek | 6.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Griffin Creek | 6.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Sawmill Run | 6.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Twomile Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Dublin Creek | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Fourmile Creek | 5.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Bay State Brook | 5.7 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Windfall Creek | 5.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Tannery Creek | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Limestone Brook | 5.3 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Johnson Creek | 5.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Deer Creek | 5.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Wayman Branch | 5.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Devereaux Branch | 5.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cuba Lake Outlet | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Run | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Sunfish Run | 5.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Saunders Creek | 4.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Gull Brook | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Rice Brook | 4.5 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Whig Street Creek | 4.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Storrs Creek | 4.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Leonard Brook | 4.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Nichols Run | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Willoughby Creek | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Bear Creek | 4.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| West Branch Bucktooth Run | 4.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| West Branch Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Birch Run | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Stoddard Creek | 3.8 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| East Branch Bucktooth Run | 3.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Tenmile Creek | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Boyce Run | 3.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Lillibridge Creek | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Titus Run | 3.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Coon Branch | 3.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Kings Brook | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Elk Creek | 3.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Plum Brook | 3.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| France Brook | 3.1 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Beehunter Creek | 3.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Johnsons Creek | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| McIntosh Creek | 3.0 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Newton Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| West Branch Fourmile Creek | 2.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Plum Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Flatstone Creek | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Breeds Run | 2.8 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Barker Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Carrollton Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cricks Run | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Scott Branch | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Porter Creek | 2.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Robinson Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Gulf Creek | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Clare Creek | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Bova Creek | 2.4 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Bryant Hill Creek | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| McMurray Creek | 2.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Haines Creek | 2.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Meetinghouse Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Bailley Brook | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Irish Brook | 2.0 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Snow Brook | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Leonard Run | 2.0 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Drakes Run | 2.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Bucktooth Run | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Pine Creek | 1.3 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation |
| Hidden Creek | 1.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Genesee Valley Canal | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
102,680 acres in 19 units, which is 6.2% of the 1,658,447 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 park agency | 63,304 | 62% | 2 |
| State conservation department | 26,314 | 26% | 15 |
| Designation overlay | 11,372 | 11% | 1 |
| County land | 1,690 | 2% | 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.
- Allegany State Park 63,283.2 ac
- Allegheny Reservoir 11,372.0 ac
- South Valley State Forest 4,477.1 ac
- Nine Mile Creek State Forest 3,337.8 ac
- Mccarty Hill State Forest 3,273.6 ac
- Rock City State Forest 2,912.5 ac
- Golden Hill State Forest 2,319.2 ac
- Bucktooth State Forest 2,294.3 ac
- Cattaraugus County Lands 2,011.2 ac
- Watts Wma 1,390.1 ac
- Panama State Forest 1,221.5 ac
- Hill Higher State Forest 1,157.1 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.