Kisco River
The Kisco River is a creek that runs through the Mount Kisco, New York area. It is formed by the forks of Chappaqua Brook and an unnamed stream. It follows a 3.3-mile (5.3 km) winding course before emptying into the New Croton Reservoir at Lake Road Bridge in the town of New Castle near the hamlet of Stanwood and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean via the Croton River, the Hudson River, and New York Harbor.
Its name is derived from the village of Mount Kisco, which the river flows through. The name of Mount Kisco is further derived from "seesquee", which may also be written as "cisqua", which is the Algonquin word for "muddy place", referring to the marshlands in the area.
Course description
The Kisco River begins at the highlands of Arthur W. Butler Memorial Sanctuary, and travels westward in New Castle until it feeds into Wallace Pond at Leonard Park in Mount Kisco. It then runs along the "Early Settler's Trail", and passes the former location of the Spencer Optical Factory which is now a nature trail. After this it runs underneath Route 133. It then runs through "Riverwoods", a town house complex. It continues past the Bedford Yeshiva Farm Settlement, a small yeshiva. The Riverwoods wastewater treatment plant discharges its wastewater into the river at this point. It then passes underneath Croton Lake Road and empties into the Muscoot Reservoir at its widest point of 1,100 feet (340 m).[clarify]
Several storm drains empty into the river along its course. It runs through a primarily developed wetland area.
See also
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- Batavia Kill
- Batten Kill
- Birch Creek
- Black Meadow Creek
- Boreas River
- Bowery Creek
- Bowmans Creek
- Breakneck Brook
- Brimstone Creek
- Canajoharie Creek
- Caroga Creek
- Casperkill
- Catskill Creek
- Cayadutta Creek
- Cedar River
- Claverack Creek
- Clove Brook
- Cobleskill Creek
- Coeymans Creek
- Coxsackie Creek
- Cross River
- Croton River
- East Branch Croton River
- East Branch Sacandaga River
- East Canada Creek
- East Kill
- Eightmile Creek
- Esopus Creek
- Fall Kill
- Fishkill Creek
- Fonteyn Kill
- Fulmer Creek
- Hannacrois Creek
- Honnedaga Brook
- Hoosic River
- Indian River
- Jackson Creek
- Jan De Bakkers Kill
- Kaaterskill Creek
- Kayaderosseras
- Kinderhook Creek
- Kisco River
- Lake Creek
- Little Shawangunk Kill
- Maritje Kill
- Miami River
- Mill Creek
- Mohawk River
- Moodna Creek
- Moordener Kill
- Moyer Creek
- Muddy Kill
- Neepaulakating Creek
- Normans Kill
- Nowadaga Creek
- Ohisa Creek
- Onesquethaw Creek
- Opalescent River
- Oriskany Creek
- Otsquago Creek
- Otter Kill
- Papakating Creek
- Peekskill Hollow Creek
- Plattekill Creek
- Platter Kill
- Pocantico River
- Pochuck Creek
- Poesten Kill
- Potic Creek
- Quassaick Creek
- Roeliff Jansen Kill
- Rondout Creek
- Sacandaga River
- Sauquoit Creek
- Saw Kill
- Saw Mill River
- Sawyer Kill
- Schoharie Creek
- Schroon River
- Shawangunk Kill
- Sparkill Creek
- Sprout Creek
- Steele Creek
- Stockport Creek
- Stony Clove Creek
- Taghkanic Creek
- Tenmile Creek
- Tin Brook
- Titicus River
- Verkeerder Kill
- Vloman Kill
- Wallkill River
- Walloomsac River
- Wappinger Creek
- Wawayanda Creek
- West Branch Papakating Creek
- West Branch Sacandaga River
- West Canada Creek
- West Kill
- Wynants Kill
- Alcove Reservoir
- Ashokan Reservoir
- Basic Creek Reservoir
- Beacon Reservoir
- Bog Brook Reservoir
- Cedar Lake
- Chadwick Lake
- Chub Lake
- Cross River Reservoir
- Croton Falls Reservoir
- Dyken Pond
- East Branch Reservoir
- East Caroga Lake
- Fall Lake
- Franklinton Vlaie
- Garnet Lake
- Glenmere Lake
- Great Sacandaga Lake
- Great Vlaie
- Henderson Lake
- Honnedaga Lake
- Indian Lake
- Lizard Pond
- Lake Maratanza
- Muscoot Reservoir
- Lake Neepaulin
- New Croton Reservoir
- Notch Lake
- Piseco Lake
- Lake Pleasant
- Queechy Lake
- Rondout Reservoir
- Sacandaga Lake
- Saratoga Lake
- Sturgeon Pool
- Surprise Lake
- Sylvan Lake
- Lake Tear of the Clouds
- Thompson Pond
- Titicus Reservoir
- Trout Lake
- West Caroga Lake
- Whaley Lake
- Winnisook Lake
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