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Hoosic River

Field	Value
name	Hoosic River
name_other	Hoos-ick
image	Hoosic River upstream from West Main St, North Adams MA.jpg
image_caption	Hoosic River in North Adams, Massachusetts
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Massachusetts, Vermont, New York
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	Hudson Valley
length_mi	76
length_ref
discharge1_location	Eagle Bridge, New York
discharge1_min	160 cuft/s
discharge1_max	3300 cuft/s
source1	Cheshire Reservoir
source1_location	Cheshire, Massachusetts
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	970 ft
mouth	Hudson River
mouth_location	Schaghticoke, New York
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	65 ft
basin_size_mi2	720
basin_size_ref
tributaries_left	Green River, Little Hoosic River
tributaries_right	North Branch Hoosic River, Walloomsac River

The Hoosic River, also known as the Hoosac, the Hoosick (primarily in New York) and the Hoosuck (mostly archaic), is a 76.3 mi tributary of the Hudson River in the northeastern United States. The different spellings are the result of varying transliterations of the river's original Algonquian name. It can be translated either as "the beyond place" (as in beyond, or east of, the Hudson) or as "the stony place" (perhaps because the river's stony bottom is usually exposed except in spring, or perhaps because local soils are so stony).

Watershed

The Hoosic River watershed is formed from tributaries originating in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the Taconic Mountains. The main (South) Branch of the river begins on the west slope of North Mountain and almost immediately fills the man-made Cheshire Reservoir in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. From there, the river flows north, west, and northwest, through the towns of Cheshire and Adams, the city of North Adams, and the town of Williamstown. It then travels through Pownal in the southwest corner of Vermont, after which it enters Rensselaer County, New York. There, it flows through the towns of North Petersburg and Hoosick, where it passes over a hydroelectric power dam in the village of Hoosick Falls. (There are also dams in Johnsonville, Valley Falls, and Schaghticoke.) The river provides the northwest border of the town of Pittstown, then flows through the town of Schaghticoke with its villages of Valley Falls and Schaghticoke before it terminates at its confluence with the Hudson 14 mi above the city of Troy.

Tributaries

North Branch Hoosic River
Green River
Little Hoosick River
Walloomsac River - Native American name, also Wal-loom-sac
Owl Kill
Wampecack Creek - Native American name, also Po-quam-pa-cak
Tomhannock - Native American name, also Tom-he-nack
- Sunkouissa Creek - Native American name, also Sank-an-is-sick

References

"The River". Hoosic River Watershed Association.
"USGS 01334500 HOOSIC RIVER NEAR EAGLE BRIDGE NY". United States Geological Survey.
(23 November 2013). "Google Maps Find Altitude". Daft Logic.
U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive. link. (2012-03-29 , accessed October 3, 2011)
William Martin Beauchamp. (1907). "Aboriginal Place Names Of New York (1907)". New York State Education Department.

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