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
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coeymans Creek
- ^ 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
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coeymans Creek
- ^ Aboriginal place names of New York, By William Martin Beauchamp, page 22