| Tin Brook | |
|---|---|
 Tin Brook in Walden's Wooster Memorial Grove | |
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| Etymology | Early settler known as John Tinne or Tinbrook, various Dutch words |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Orange |
| Municipality | Town of New Windsor, Town of Montgomery, Village of Walden |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | S of Coldenham |
| • coordinates | 41°30′42″N 74°09′07″W / 41.5118°N 74.1520°W |
| • elevation | 420 ft (130 m) |
| Mouth | Wallkill River |
• coordinates | 41°34′31″N 74°11′26″W / 41.5753°N 74.1905°W |
• elevation | 260 ft (79 m) |
| Length | 9 mi (14 km) |
| Basin size | 19.2 sq mi (50 km2) |
Tin Brook is a 9-mile-long (14 km)[1] tributary of the Wallkill River almost entirely located in the town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York, United States, where it drains 19.2 square miles (50 km2).[2] Near its mouth it flows through the village of Walden. It is one of the few named tributaries of the Wallkill that drain into it from the lowlands between it and the Hudson River to the east, rather than the Shawangunk Ridge to the west.
Several possible origins have been proposed for the name, which appeared on local maps as early as 1774.[3] The most likely points to an early landowner along the midlands of the stream variously named John Tinne, Thinne or even John Tinbrook. Another theory suggests that it was named by the Dutch settlers who were the first European inhabitants of the Hudson Valley and that it comes from the words meaning "thin breeches" in that language. Supposedly one of them had reconnoitered south from New Paltz and found the soils around the brook to be thin, or insufficiently deep for the kind of farming they preferred.[4]
- ^ "Stream Trace Summary Report". U.S. Geological Survey. February 2, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ^ "Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan" (PDF). Orange County Water Authority. p. 10. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ^ Eager, Samuel Watkins (1846). An Outline History of Orange County: Together with Local Tradition and Short Biographical Sketches of Early Settlers, Etc. T. E. Henderson. p. 274.
- ^ "Town of Montgomery". History of Orange County. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-07-20. at American Genealogy and History Project.