Cobleskill Creek is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in
Otsego and
Schoharie counties in the state of
New York
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. It starts at Pine Mountain west of
West Richmondville and flows east-northeast before converging with
Schoharie Creek
Schoharie Creek is a river in New York that flows north from the foot of Indian Head Mountain in the Catskills through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie ...
in
Central Bridge. The creek flows through the villages of
Richmondville and
Cobleskill.
Hydrology
The
United States Geological Survey
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(USGS) maintains
stream gauge
A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water. Hydrometric measurements of water level surface elevation ("stage") and/or volu ...
s along Cobleskill Creek. The station on South Grand Street, in operation from 1963 to 1965, 1974, 1987 and 2017 to present, is located south of Cobleskill. It had a maximum discharge of per second on March 5, 1964, and a minimum discharge of per second on July 21, 2018.
References
Matthew Bowen Lost his prized goose on Cobleskill Creek in 2001.
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Rivers of New York (state)
Rivers of Schoharie County, New York