Watershed Sub-Basins in Columbia County, New York

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Watershed Sub-Basins in Columbia County, New York

Physical Setting 6 Watershed Kinderhook Creek Wyomanock Creek Hollow Brook- ¤£20 Green Brook- Valatie Kill Kinderhook Creek ¤£9 Kinderhook Creek Sub-basins Schodack Creek, New Lebanon direct to Hudson «¬22 Kinderhook «¬66 ¨¦§I-90 direct to Hudson Stony Kill Valatie «¬295 «¬9J Chatham Major watershed boundary Kinderhook Creek- Canaan Stuyvesant Stockport Creek Kinderhook Stony Kill Sub-basin name Mill Creek, direct to Hudson Williams «¬9H River Municipal boundary Chatham Stream Kline Kill Waterbody Stockport «¬203 Interstate/parkway Ghent Austerlitz North Creek «¬66 Other major road ¤£9 Fitting Creek- Green River Claverack Creek County road River Agawamuck Hudson «¬9H Creek «¬71 Philmont «¬217 Headwaters direct to Hudson Roeliff Jansen Kill Hollowville Creek- «¬23 Claverack Creek Hillsdale µ Greenport Claverack «¬22 «¬23 «¬9G Hudson Tagkanic Creek ay w k Headwaters Taghkanic Creek r a Foxes Creek, P e direct to Hudson Livingston t a t S Taghkanic Copake ic n Germantown ¤£9 o c a T Klein Kill- Roeliff Jansen Kill Taconic Mountains Clermont Bash Bish Brook Stony Creek Gallatin «¬82 «¬22 Fall Kill- Punch Brook-Roeliff Jansen Kill Roeliff Jansen Kill Ancram Headwaters 0 2.5 5 10 Shekomeko Creek Webatuck Creek Miles Data Sources: Major watersheds and sub-basins from the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Watershed Boundary Dataset (at the 10-digit and 12- digit Hydrologic Unit Code levels, respectively), available from datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov. Hudsonia renamed some sub-basins to be more useful for the Columbia County NRI. Streams and waterbodies data from the National Hydrography Dataset, US Geological Survey, 2013, available from nhd.usgs.gov. For roads and boundaries data sources see Figure 1. Map created by Hudsonia Ltd., Annandale, NY. Figure 6. Watershed sub-basins in Columbia County, New York. Columbia County Natural Resources Inventory, 2018. 21.

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