Catskill Creek is a
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed October 3, 2011 tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the
Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between Ne ...
that drains the northeastern
Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas cl ...
of the U.S. State of
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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* '' ...
. From its source at
Franklinton Vlaie in
Schoharie County
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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
Fishkill Creek (also Fish Kill, from the Dutch ''vis kille'', for "fish creek") is a tributary of the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States. At U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataT ...
, Catskill Creek is
tautological, literally repeating "creek" twice, as ''
kill
Kill often refers to:
*Homicide, one human killing another
*cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death
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Media
*'' Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto
* ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006
* ...
'' 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".
''Aboriginal Place Names of New York''
by William Martin Beauchamp, page 19
*Platte Kill
*Shingle Kill
*Jan De Bakkers Kill Jan de Bakker's Kill (pronounced yon-de-bocker) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed October 3, 2011 tributary of Catskill Creek, part of the Hudson River watershed, in th ...
*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
Kaaterskill Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed October 3, 2011 tributary of Catskill Creek in Greene and Ulster counties in New York. Via Catskill Creek, it is p ...
**Beaver Kill
The Beaver Kill, sometimes written as the Beaverkill or Beaverkill River, is a tributary of the East Branch Delaware River, a main tributary of the Delaware River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of New York. The kill drains a Baldigo, Bar ...
** Kiskatom Brook—from a Mahican name referring to the shagbark hickory
''Carya ovata'', the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada. It is a large, deciduous tree, growing well over tall, and can live more than 350 years. The tallest measured shagbark, located in ...
tree.
* Hans Vosen Kill
See also
*List of rivers of New York
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By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented by order of confluence with their main stem, from mouth to source.
Long I ...
References
External links
Bedford Fine Art Gallery: A Catskill Creek by Frank Anderson
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
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