Hoosic River

Hoosic River Hoos-ick
Hoosic River in North Adams, Massachusetts
Location
Country	United States
State	Massachusetts, Vermont, New York
Region	Hudson Valley
Physical characteristics
Source	Cheshire Reservoir
• location	Cheshire, Massachusetts
• coordinates	42°33′14″N 73°9′56″W / 42.55389°N 73.16556°W / 42.55389; -73.16556[1]
• elevation	970 ft (300 m)[1]
Mouth	Hudson River
• location	Schaghticoke, New York
• coordinates	42°55′40″N 73°39′29″W / 42.92778°N 73.65806°W / 42.92778; -73.65806
• elevation	65 ft (20 m)[1]
Length	76 mi (122 km)[2]
Basin size	720 sq mi (1,900 km2)[2]
Discharge
• location	Eagle Bridge, New York[3]
• minimum	160 cu ft/s (4.5 m3/s)[3]
• maximum	3,300 cu ft/s (93 m3/s)[3]
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Green River, Little Hoosic River
• 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-mile-long (122.8 km)^[4] 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).^[5]