Claverack Creek is a 17.5 miles (28.2 km) tributary to Stockport Creek

Stockport Creek

Stockport Creek is a tributary to the Hudson River in the town of Stockport, New York, in the United States. Its source is the confluence of Kinderhook Creek and Claverack Creek near the village of Stockport. Its mouth is at the Hudson River at the western boundary of Stockport...

 in Columbia County, New York

Columbia County, New York

Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,096. The county seat is Hudson. The name comes from the Latin feminine form of the name of Christopher Columbus, which was at the time of the formation of the county a popular proposal...

, in the United States. Its source is in the town of Claverack

Claverack, New York

Claverack is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 6,401 at the 2000 census. The town name is a corruption for the Dutch word for "Clover Fields" or "Clover Reach"....

 at the hamlet of Mellenville, and its mouth is at its confluence with Kinderhook Creek

Kinderhook Creek

Kinderhook Creek is a tributary to Stockport Creek, an inlet of the Hudson River in the United States. From its source in Hancock, Massachusetts, the creek runs southwest through the Taconic Mountains into Rensselaer County, New York, and then into Columbia County...

 to form Stockport Creek, in the town of Stockport

Stockport, New York

Stockport is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 2,933 at the 2000 census.The Town of Stockport is in the northwest part of the county.- History :The region was settled around 1657....

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History

The lower Claverack Creek was known as Twastawekak (To-was-ta-we-kak or Twastaweekak) by the Native American Mahican

Mahican

The Mahican are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, originally settling in the Hudson River Valley . After 1680, many moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. During the early 1820s and 1830s, most of the Mahican descendants migrated westward to northeastern Wisconsin...

 tribe, while the upper creek was named Ska-an-kook or Skaanpook.

Tributaries

• Fitting Creek
  • Widows Creek
• Mud Creek
• Taghkanic Creek
  Taghkanic Creek
  Taghkanic Creek is a tributary to Claverack Creek in Columbia County, New York, in the United States. Via Claverack Creek and Stockport Creek, it is part of the Hudson River watershed...
  
  
  • Mud Creek
  • Snydam Creek
  • Chrysler Pond Outlet
• Loomis Creek
• Hollowville Creek
• North Creek
• Agawamuck Creek