The Wynants Kill[1] is a 15.8-mile-long (25.4 km)[2] stream which has its source at Glass Lake near Averill Park, New York, and terminates at the Hudson River at Troy, New York.
Wynants Kill | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | New York |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Glass Lake |
• location | Sand Lake, New York, Rensselaer County, New York, New York |
• coordinates | 42°37′46″N 73°31′58″W / 42.62944°N 73.53278°W |
Mouth | Hudson River |
• location | Troy, New York |
• coordinates | 42°42′20″N 73°42′05″W / 42.70556°N 73.70139°W |
• elevation | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
The stream is named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699), a Dutch cabinet maker from Meppel who owned a sawmill on it in the 1650s,[3][4] while kill is from an archaic Dutch word for "stream".