Claverack Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed October 3, 2011 tributary to Stockport Creek in Columbia County, New York, in the United States. Its source is in the town of Claverack at the hamlet of Mellenville, and its mouth is at its confluence with Kinderhook Creek to form Stockport Creek, in the town of Stockport.

History The lower Claverack Creek was known as Twastawekak (To-was-ta-we-kak or Twastaweekak) by the Native American Mahican tribe,History of the Indian tribes of Hudson's River: their origin, manners and customs..., By Edward Manning Ruttenberg, page 374 while the upper creek was named Ska-an-kook or Skaanpook.Aboriginal place names of New York, by William Martin Beauchamp, page 49.

Tributaries Fitting Creek Widows Creek Mud Creek Taghkanic Creek Mud Creek Snydam Creek Chrysler Pond Outlet Loomis Creek Hollowville Creek North Creek Agawamuck Creek

See also List of rivers of New York

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