Coeymans Creek Onesquethaw Creek, Oniskethau Kil | |
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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.
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]