Bowery Creek

Bowery Creek^[1] is a 6.0-mile-long (9.7 km)^[2] tributary of Catskill Creek north of the Catskill Mountains of New York. Via Catskill Creek, it is part of the Hudson River watershed. Bowery Creek rises east of Windham High Peak in the northern part of the town of Cairo and flows northeast to Catskill Creek west of Freehold.

Bowery Creek
Location
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Greene
Towns	, Freehold, Durham
Physical characteristics
Source	Windham High Peak
• location	Cairo, New York
• coordinates	42°18′59″N 74°07′47″W
Mouth	Catskill Creek
• location	Freehold, New York
• coordinates	42°21′44″N 74°04′07″W
• elevation	0 ft (0 m)

The name "Bowery" comes from the Dutch word for farm.^[3]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bowery Creek
2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 3, 2011
3. Old Dutch Place Names from www.ancestry.com.