Little Delaware River
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| Little Delaware River | |
|---|---|
 Little Delaware shown as a tributary of the West Branch Delaware | |
  Location of the mouth within New York  Little Delaware River (the United States) | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Region | Catskills |
| County | Delaware |
| Towns | Bovina, Delhi |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Unnamed mountain |
| • location | NE of Bovina |
| • coordinates | 42°17′23″N 74°39′58″W / 42.2898067°N 74.665988°W[1] |
| Mouth | West Branch Delaware River |
• location | Delhi |
• coordinates | 42°15′35″N 74°55′43″W / 42.2598072°N 74.9284952°W[1] |
• elevation | 1,325 ft (404 m)[1] |
| Length | 16 mi (26 km)[2] |
| Basin size | 52.2 sq mi (135 km2)[3] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Delhi |
| • minimum | .8 cubic feet per second (0.023 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 6,100 cubic feet per second (170 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Delaware River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Mountain Brook, Coulter Brook |
| • right | Brush Brook, Glen Burnie, Hughes Brook, Toll Gate Brook |
Little Delaware River is a river in Delaware County, New York. It begins along the western slope of Plattekill Mountain, northeast of the Hamlet of Bovina and flows generally westward before converging with the West Branch Delaware River by the Village of Delhi.[3]
In the Little Delaware River the wild brown trout and brook trout populations are supplemented with the stocking of about 700 brown trout yearlings each year. The fish are stocked in a 0.8 miles (1.3 km) zone at the mouth and a 1.2 miles (1.9 km) zone downstream of the hamlet of Bovina Center. Brown trout are the dominant wild trout in the stream, but there are also large amounts of brook trout upstream of Bovina Center.[2]