Basher Kill is a stream in

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counties in the

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. It is a tributary to the

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. The stream

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are at and elevation of approximately 540 feet in Sullivan County just north of Wurtsboro and connected to the

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. The stream flows to the southwest paralleling

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passing under

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southeast of Wurtzboro. The stream enters Orange County at the village of Westbrookville. The stream continues to the southwest crossing under New York Route 211 to its confluence with the Neversink River at at an elevation of 459 feet. The confluence is just northeast of the community of Myers Grove.''Otisville, NY,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1969 (1979 rev.) Basher Kill was named after , a local Native American woman. Many variant spellings have been recorded, including "Ba-sha Kill", "Basha's Kill", "Basher's Kill", "Bashers Kil", Bashers Kill", and "Bashes Kil". The stream flows through

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, a manmade wetland maintained by the

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(NYSDEC) as a New York State Wildlife Management Area. The NYSDEC built a dam along the watercourse in the 1970s to preserve the Basha Kill and its wildlife.

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