| Wynants Kill | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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 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.
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".
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wynants Kill
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National MapArchived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 3, 2011
- ^ Dutch influence lingers in New York names
- ^ John Warren, The Poesten Kill: Waterfalls to Waterworks in the Capital District, page 46