Misplaced Pages

Catskill Creek
Etymology	“Kat's Creek” in Dutch
Location
Country	United States
State	New York
Region	Catskills, Hudson Valley
County	Greene
Towns	Catskill, New York,
Physical characteristics
Source	Franklinton Vlaie Pond
• location	Broome, New York
• coordinates	42°31′15.32″N 74°18′21.56″W / 42.5209222°N 74.3059889°W / 42.5209222; -74.3059889
Mouth	Hudson River at Catskill, New York
• location	Catskill, New York
• coordinates	42°12′29.98″N 73°51′16.03″W / 42.2083278°N 73.8544528°W / 42.2083278; -73.8544528
• elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Basin size	394 sq mi (1,020 km)
Basin features
River system	Hudson River

Catskill Creek is a 46.0-mile-long (74.0 km) tributary of the Hudson River that drains the northeastern Catskill Mountains of the U.S. State of New York. From its source at Franklinton Vlaie in Schoharie County it flows southeast through parts of Albany County and Greene County to its mouth at the village of Catskill on the Hudson River.

Like Fishkill Creek, Catskill Creek is tautological, literally repeating "creek" twice, as kill is Dutch for "creek".

Tributaries

• Lake Creek
• Fox Creek
• Potter Hollow Creek
• Tenmile Creek
  • Eightmile Creek
• Thorpe Creek
  • Cornwallville Creek
  • Fall Creek
• Bowery Creek
• Basic Creek—May be a corruption of a Mahican word meaning "valley".
• Platte Kill
• Shingle Kill
• Jan De Bakkers Kill
• Bell Brook
• Potic Creek—likely from a Mahican name referring to a waterfall or set of rapids.
  • Cob Creek
  • Grapeville Creek
    • West Medway Creek
• Lake Brook
• Kaaterskill Creek
  • Beaver Kill
  • Kiskatom Brook—from a Mahican name referring to the shagbark hickory tree.
• Hans Vosen Kill

See also

• List of rivers of New York

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Catskill Creek
2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 3, 2011
3. Catskill Creek Public Fishing Rights, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Publications, Forms, Maps. Catskill Creek Public Fishing Rights. Accessed June 30, 2010.
4. Aboriginal Place Names of New York, by William Martin Beauchamp, page 19

External links

• Bedford Fine Art Gallery: A Catskill Creek by Frank Anderson

• v
• t
• e

• Catskill, New York
• Catskills
• Rivers of Albany County, New York
• Rivers of Greene County, New York
• Rivers of New York (state)
• Rivers of Schoharie County, New York
• Tributaries of the Hudson River
• New York (state) river stubs