The Sawyer Kill or Sawyer's Kill is a 7.0-mile-long (11.3 km)[2] tributary stream of the Hudson River in New York state. The source is at the Great Vlaie on the border of Ulster and Greene counties. The stream enters the Hudson River at Seamon Park in Malden, New York, just north of the village of Saugerties.
| Sawyer Kill [1] | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Region | Hudson Valley |
| County | Ulster |
| Towns | Saugerties, New York, |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Great Vly |
| • location | Cementon, New York |
| • coordinates | 42°08′21″N 73°56′38″W / 42.13917°N 73.94389°W |
| Mouth | Hudson River at Saugerties, New York |
• location | Saugerties, New York |
• coordinates | 42°04′52″N 73°56′17″W / 42.08111°N 73.93806°W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Hudson River |
Saugerties takes its name from the Dutch, "Saugerje's Kill" or "Little Sawyer's creek".[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sawyer Kill
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 3, 2011
- ^ [1] Old Dutch Place Names from www.ancestry.com.