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Muddy Kill is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed October 3, 2011
With little significant woodland in its valley, the creek can rise quickly when heavy rains fall. After the April 2007 Nor'easter, it flooded severely enough near its mouth that Route 17K had to be closed west of Montgomery for two days.
The National Map
accessed October 3, 2011
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the Wallkill River
The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed Oct ...
that runs entirely through the town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York, United States. It rises from a small pond just over a mile (1.7 km) west of the village of Walden
''Walden'' (; first published in 1854 as ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'') is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part ...
, flowing first southwesterly then roughly due south to empty into the Wallkill just upstream from the village of Montgomery.
Its course takes it mostly through areas cleared for agriculture, although not all are presently cultivated. Near its mouth it passes through a large horse
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farm, and then once it runs through a culvert under NY 17K it is within recently acquired and developed by the town as Benedict Farm Park. It drains the low-lying Comfort Hills to the west.
The name is an English interpretation of ''Modder Kill
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'', as it was called by early Dutch settlers in the region. In Dutch
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, ''Modder'' means "mud" or "slime", so the meaning of the creek's name stayed the same. at American Genealogy and History Project. The fertile lands of the creek's valley attracted many early settlers, and the houses of some, such as Abraham Dickerson, Jacob Bookstaver, Moses Mould and Wilhelm Schmitt, still stand. It has been equally attractive to contemporary real estate developer
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s, and to lessen environmental impacts on the stream and the Wallkill watershed as a whole the Open Space Institute
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and the town cooperated in 2005 to obtain a permanent agricultural easement
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on the Zylstra Farm, one of the largest properties along the creek., Open Space Institute.
With little significant woodland in its valley, the creek can rise quickly when heavy rains fall. After the April 2007 Nor'easter, it flooded severely enough near its mouth that Route 17K had to be closed west of Montgomery for two days.
See also
* List of rivers of New YorkReferences
{{authority control Rivers of New York (state) Tributaries of the Wallkill River Rivers of Orange County, New York