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Upper Genesee River Watershed, New York

2,843 miles of mapped stream across 1,425 square miles of drainage in Allegany, Livingston, Wyoming, Steuben counties, in 76 named streams. New York designates 239 of those miles as trout water, on 39 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 04130002 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

2,843 mi
of mapped stream
6,370 NHD reaches
1,425 sq mi
drainage area
912,298 acres
67,347 ac
public land
7.4% 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 13% of this basin's stream miles (368.1 of 2,843); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

368.1 of the 368.1 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 13% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 76 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
Genesee River 95.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Canaseraga Creek 52.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Creek 37.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Keshequa Creek 28.4 untyped — —
Wiscoy Creek 25.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
East Koy Creek 25.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rush Creek 21.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Bradner Creek 20.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Creek 19.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dyke Creek 17.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Caneadea Creek 16.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Angelica Creek 16.4 untyped — —
Sugar Creek 14.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Knight Creek 14.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cold Creek 12.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Vandermark Creek 12.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Phillips Creek 12.2 untyped — —
Chenunda Creek 11.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Twomile Creek 11.4 untyped — —
Silver Lake Outlet 11.4 untyped — —
Baker Creek 11.1 untyped — —
Sixtown Creek 11.0 untyped — —
South Branch Van Campen Creek 10.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crawford Creek 9.8 untyped — —
White Creek 9.5 untyped — —
Little Mill Creek 9.3 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Buck Run Creek 9.2 untyped — —
Wigwam Creek 9.1 untyped — —
Wolf Creek 8.4 untyped — —
Van Campen Creek 8.2 untyped — —
Trout Brook 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Slader Creek 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Brook 7.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
North Branch Phillips Creek 7.4 untyped — —
Brimmer Brook 7.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Valley Creek 6.6 untyped — —
Gordon Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tuscarora Creek 6.4 untyped — —
West Branch Van Campen Creek 6.2 untyped — —
Shongo Creek 6.1 untyped — —
North Branch Wiscoy Creek 6.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Allens Creek 6.0 untyped — —
Plum Bottom Creek 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Railroad Brook 5.8 untyped — —
Mud Creek 5.7 untyped — —
Newville Creek 5.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ford Brook 5.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Van Campen Creek 5.2 untyped — —
Silver Lake Inlet 4.8 untyped — —
West Ditch 4.5 untyped — —
South Branch Ford Brook 4.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trapping Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fry Creek 4.2 untyped — —
Bennett Creek 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Elm Creek 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Long Gore Creek 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Brook 3.9 untyped — —
Ewart Creek 3.9 untyped — —
Snowball Hollow Creek 3.8 untyped — —
Crowner Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Feathers Creek 3.8 untyped — —
Eastover Brook 3.7 untyped — —
Tail Race 3.5 untyped — —
Spring Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Moss Brook 3.0 untyped — —
Lacy Creek 2.9 untyped — —
Sucker Brook 2.6 untyped — —
California Creek 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wahl Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Indian Creek 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bush Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hog Brook 1.7 untyped — —
Cooley Creek 1.6 untyped — —
Put Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Genesee Valley Canal 1.2 untyped — —
Emory Brook 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

67,347 acres in 31 units, which is 7.4% of the 912,298 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 47,175 70% 26
State park agency 15,227 23% 2
Designation overlay 3,093 5% 1
County land 1,852 3% 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.