Coeymans Creek

River in New York, United States
42°32′19″N 73°49′40″W / 42.53861°N 73.82778°W / 42.53861; -73.82778 MouthHudson River
 • location
Coeymans, New York
 • coordinates
42°28′34″N 73°47′23″W / 42.47611°N 73.78972°W / 42.47611; -73.78972
 • elevation
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Coeymans Creek[1] is a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km)[2] tributary of the Hudson River in Albany County, New York in the United States.

The creek originates as the continuation of Onesquethaw Creek,[3] which starts near Clarksville, in the Helderberg Mountains.

History

O-nis'-ke-thau Creek is also called Coeymans Creek. There was a hamlet of this name in New Scotland as well as Oniskethau flats and mountain. It is said to have been an early Native American name meaning cornfields.[4]

Tributaries

  • Mosher Brook
  • Onesquethaw Creek
  • Feuri Spruyt (Feuri-Sprayt Kill), a small stream in the north part of Coeymans, disappears, and flows for half a mile in a subterranean passage, coming to the surface again in New Scotland.

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coeymans Creek
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 3, 2011
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coeymans Creek
  4. ^ Aboriginal place names of New York, By William Martin Beauchamp, page 22
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