Butternut Creek (Unadilla River tributary)

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| image = Butternut Creek at Bell Hill Road.JPG

| image_caption = Looking downstream from Bell Hill Road by Garrattsville

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| pushpin_map = New York Adirondack Park#USA

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of Butternut Creek

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| subdivision_name2 = New York

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| length = {{convert|37|mi|km|abbr=on}}

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| mouth = Unadilla River

| mouth_location = Mount Upton, New York

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|42|24|55|N|75|22|30|W|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|1000|ft|abbr=on}}

| progression = Butternut Creek → Unadilla River → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay → Atlantic Ocean

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| basin_size = {{convert|130|mi2|abbr=on}}{{cite web

| url = https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=0150238005

| title = USGS 0150238005 BUTTERNUT CREEK AT MOUTH AT MOUNT UPTON NY

| website = usgs.gov

| publisher = United States Geological Survey

| access-date = September 3, 2021}}

| tributaries_left = Stony Creek, Cahoon Creek, Shaw Brook

| tributaries_right = Calhoun Creek, Morris Brook, Thorp Brook, Coye Brook, Dunderberg Creek, Halbert Brook, Dry Brook

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Butternut Creek is a {{convert|37|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} river in the state of New York. It converges with the Unadilla River just downstream of Mount Upton. The creek has many fish for fishing dominated by largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, wall-eye, chain pickerel, rock bass, and yellow perch.

The Mohawk called the creek the Tienuderrah.{{cite book |last1=Eddy |first1=Hilah Violet |title=The Lull Book |date=1926 |location=Detroit, Michigan |page=20 |url=https://archive.org/details/lullbookcompiled00eddy/page/n41/ |accessdate=Oct 20, 2020}} General Jacob Morris visited the area in 1787, and described Butternut Creek as "the handsomest navigable creek I ever lay my eyes upon."{{cite web |last1=Morris |first1=Jacob |last2=Young |first2=Hollis (ed.) |last3=Young |first3=Debbie (ed.) |title=BUTTERNUTS CREEK, 12 MILE FROM THE UNADILLA |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/otsego/book/morris/morrispatent.html |website=usgennet.org |accessdate=Oct 20, 2020}}

Tributaries

File:Stony Creek by Garrattsville NY.JPG

Stony Creek flows into the creek northwest of New Lisbon.{{cite gnis|id=966550|name=Stony Creek|accessdate=2017-06-03}} Shaw Brook flows into the creek south-southwest of Gilbertsville.{{cite gnis|id=964968|name=Shaw Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}} Cahoon Creek flows into the creek east of Gilbertsville.{{cite gnis | id = 945434 | name = Cahoon Creek | accessdate = 2017-06-03}} Dunderberg Creek flows into the creek east of Gilbertsville.{{cite gnis | id = 948786 | name = Dunderberg Creek | accessdate = 2018-09-09}} Calhoun Creek flows into the creek southeast of Morris.{{cite gnis | id = 945456 | name = Calhoun Creek | accessdate = 2017-06-03}} Morris Brook starts just east of Shacktown Mountain and flows south into Allen Pond. It exits Allen Pond and continues flowing south through Dimock Hollow before flowing into Morris Pond. It exits Morris Pond and flows southeast before converging with Butternut Creek southwest of Morris.{{cite gnis|id=957687|name=Morris Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}} Thorp Brook flows into the creek northeast of Gilbertsville.{{cite gnis|id=967440|name=Thorp Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}} Coye Brook flows into the creek northeast of Gilbertsville.{{cite gnis|id=947616|name=Coye Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}} Halbert Brook flows into the creek southwest of Gilbertsville.{{Cite book|last=Wagner|first=Lloyd A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl9EAAAAYAAJ&q=Halbert+Brook+-wikipedia&pg=PA150|title=Drainage Areas of New York Streams, by River Basins: A Stream Gazetteer : Part 1, Data Compiled as of October 1980|date=1982|publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8tSCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Halbert+Brook%22&pg=PA191|title=Eastern New York All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide|date=2016-08-27|publisher=Sportsman's Connection|isbn=978-1-885010-78-0|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Stanley E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13tDAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Halbert+Brook%22|title=Manual for the Fisherman: A Practical Guide for Fresh and Salt Water Fishing|date=1950|publisher=News Syndicate Company|language=en}}{{cite gnis|id=952005|name=Halbert Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}} Dry Brook flows into the creek southwest of Gilbertsville. Dry Brook was formally known as "Copes Brook".{{cite gnis|id=948676|name=Dry Brook|accessdate=2018-09-09}}{{cite web

| url = http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/15704/Butternuts+001/Otsego+County+1868/New+York/

| title = Butternuts Town

| website = historicmapworks.com

| access-date = 16 September 2018}}

References

Category:Geography of New York (state)

Category:Rivers of New York (state)

Category:Rivers of Otsego County, New York