Claverack Creek
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{{Infobox river
| name = Claverack Creek
| name_native = {{native name|mjy|To-was-ta-we-kak}}
| name_other = Twastaweekak
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| image = ClaverackandKinderhookCreeks.png
| image_caption = Main branches of Claverack Creek and Kinderhook Creek
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| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = United States
| subdivision_type2 = State
| subdivision_name2 = New York
| subdivision_type3 = County
| subdivision_name3 = Columbia
| subdivision_type4 = Towns
| subdivision_name4 = , Stottville, New York, Claverack, New York
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| source1_location = Mellenville, New York
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|42|15|00|N|73|40|12|W|display=inline}}
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| mouth = Stockport Creek
| mouth_location = Stockport, New York
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Claverack Creek{{gnis|970007}} is a {{convert|17.5|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630110913/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2016-06-30 }}, accessed October 3, 2011 tributary to Stockport Creek in Columbia County, New York, in the United States. Its source is in the town of Claverack at the hamlet of Mellenville, and its mouth is at its confluence with Kinderhook Creek to form Stockport Creek, in the town of Stockport.
History
The lower Claverack Creek was known as Twastawekak (To-was-ta-we-kak or Twastaweekak) by the Native American Mahican tribe,[https://books.google.com/books?id=b7tAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374 History of the Indian tribes of Hudson's River: their origin, manners and customs..., By Edward Manning Ruttenberg, page 374] while the upper creek was named Ska-an-kook or Skaanpook.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MBQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49 Aboriginal place names of New York, by William Martin Beauchamp, page 49.]
Tributaries
- Fitting Creek
- Widows Creek
- Mud Creek
- Taghkanic Creek
- Mud Creek
- Snydam Creek
- Chrysler Pond Outlet
- Loomis Creek
- Hollowville Creek
- North Creek
- Agawamuck Creek
See also
References
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Category:Rivers of Columbia County, New York