Kinderhook Creek

Kinderhook Creek
East Creek, Kinderhook Brook
Main branches of Kinderhook Creek and Claverack Creek
Map
Native namePasanthkack (Mahican)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York, Massachusetts
CountyColumbia County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Berkshire County, MA
Towns, Stottville, New York, Hancock, Massachusetts
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationHancock, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts
 • coordinates42°34′38″N 73°17′52″W / 42.57722°N 73.29778°W / 42.57722; -73.29778
MouthStockport Creek
 • location
Stockport, New York
 • coordinates
42°19′03″N 73°44′43″W / 42.31750°N 73.74528°W / 42.31750; -73.74528
 • elevation
10 ft (3.0 m)
Length49 mi (79 km)

Kinderhook Creek[1] is a 49.0-mile-long (78.9 km)[2] tributary to Stockport Creek, an inlet of the Hudson River in the United States. From its source in Hancock, Massachusetts, the creek runs southwest through the Taconic Mountains into Rensselaer County, New York, and then into Columbia County. It flows through the towns of Stephentown, New Lebanon, Nassau, Chatham, Kinderhook and Stuyvesant to its mouth at Stockport Creek in the town of Stockport.

Kinderhook Creek has a drainage area of over 329 square miles (850 km2).[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kinderhook 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. ^ USGS 01361000 KINDERHOOK CREEK AT ROSSMAN NY

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