Hoosic River

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{{Infobox river

| name = Hoosic River

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| name_other = Hoos-ick

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| image = Hoosic River upstream from West Main St, North Adams MA.jpg

| image_caption = Hoosic River in North Adams, Massachusetts

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| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Massachusetts, Vermont, New York

| subdivision_type3 = Region

| subdivision_name3 = Hudson Valley

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| length_mi = 76

| length_ref = {{cite web|title=The River|url=http://hoorwa.org/the-river/|website=hoorwa.org/|publisher=Hoosic River Watershed Association|access-date=19 November 2014}}

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| discharge1_location= Eagle Bridge, New York{{cite web|title=USGS 01334500 HOOSIC RIVER NEAR EAGLE BRIDGE NY|url=http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?01334500|website=waterdata.usgs.gov/|publisher=United States Geological Survey|access-date=19 November 2014}}

| discharge1_min = {{convert|160|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

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| discharge1_max = {{convert|3300|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| source1 = Cheshire Reservoir

| source1_location = Cheshire, Massachusetts

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|42|33|14|N|73|9|56|W|display=inline}}{{cite map |publisher=Daft Logic |title=Google Maps Find Altitude |map-url=http://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm |date=23 November 2013 |location=Clarksburg |language=en |access-date=19 November 2014 }}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|970|ft|abbr=on}}

| mouth = Hudson River

| mouth_location = Schaghticoke, New York

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|42|55|40|N|73|39|29|W|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|65|ft|abbr=on}}

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| basin_size_mi2 = 720

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| tributaries_left = Green River, Little Hoosic River

| tributaries_right = North Branch Hoosic River, Walloomsac River

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The Hoosic River, also known as the Hoosac, the Hoosick (primarily in New York) and the Hoosuck (mostly archaic), is a {{convert|76.3|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/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed October 3, 2011 tributary of the Hudson River in the northeastern United States. The different spellings are the result of varying transliterations of the river's original Algonquian name. It can be translated either as "the beyond place" (as in beyond, or east of, the Hudson) or as "the stony place" (perhaps because the river's stony bottom is usually exposed except in spring, or perhaps because local soils are so stony).{{cite book |title=Aboriginal Place Names Of New York (1907)|year=1907|publisher=New York State Education Department|pages=[https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog/page/n185 181]–185|url=https://archive.org/details/aboriginalplace00beaugoog|author=William Martin Beauchamp|author-link=William Martin Beauchamp}}