| Coeymans Creek Onesquethaw Creek, Oniskethau Kil | |
|---|---|
 Onesquethaw and Coeymans Creeks | |
| Native name | O-nis-ke-thau |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Albany |
| Towns | Bethlehem, Coeymans |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Bethlehem, New York |
| • coordinates | 42°32′19″N 73°49′40″W / 42.53861°N 73.82778°W |
| Mouth | Hudson River |
• location | Coeymans, New York |
• coordinates | 42°28′34″N 73°47′23″W / 42.47611°N 73.78972°W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
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