Kinderhook Creek

Kinderhook Creek East Creek, Kinderhook Brook
Main branches of Kinderhook Creek and Claverack Creek
Native name	Pasanthkack (Mahican)
Location
Country	United States
State	New York, Massachusetts
County	Columbia County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Berkshire County, MA
Towns	, Stottville, New York, Hancock, Massachusetts
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Hancock, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts
• coordinates	42°34′38″N 73°17′52″W / 42.57722°N 73.29778°W / 42.57722; -73.29778
Mouth	Stockport Creek
• location	Stockport, New York
• coordinates	42°19′03″N 73°44′43″W / 42.31750°N 73.74528°W / 42.31750; -73.74528
• elevation	10 ft (3.0 m)
Length	49 mi (79 km)

Kinderhook Creek^[1] is a 49.0-mile-long (78.9 km)^[2] 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. It flows through the towns of Stephentown, New Lebanon, Nassau, Chatham, Kinderhook and Stuyvesant to its mouth at Stockport Creek in the town of Stockport.

Kinderhook Creek has a drainage area of over 329 square miles (850 km²).^[3]