Tin Brook

Tin Brook
Tin Brook in Walden, New York
Data
Water code	US :  967542
location	Orange County in New York (USA)
River system	Hudson River
Drain over	Wallkill River  → Rondout Creek  → Hudson River  → Atlantic Ocean
source	south of Coldenham 41 ° 30 ′ 45 ″  N , 74 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  W
Source height	128  m
muzzle	Wallkill River Coordinates: 41 ° 34 ′ 31 "  N , 74 ° 11 ′ 26"  W 41 ° 34 ′ 31 "  N , 74 ° 11 ′ 26"  W.
Mouth height	76  m
Height difference	52 m
Small towns	New Windsor , Montgomery , Walden

Tin Brook is a tributary to the Wallkill River that runs almost entirely within the Town of Montgomery in Orange County of New York in the United States .

Near its mouth, the water flows through the Village of Walden . The Tin Brook is one of the few tributaries of the Wallkill River that drains the lowlands between the river and the Hudson River in the east and does not originate in the Shawangunk Ridge to the west .

The origin of the name, which appeared on maps as early as 1774, has not been clearly established. The most likely explanation points to an early landowner on the middle reaches of the water, whose name may have been John Tinne, Thinne, or maybe even John Tinbrook. Another theory is that the name of the watercourse goes back to the Dutch settlers, who were the first European inhabitants in the Hudson Valley . Accordingly, one of these settlers explored the area south of what is now New Paltz and found that the soil around the watercourse was too thin to practice the type of agriculture that the settlers were used to.

Run

Tin Brook has its source in a 2.1 km² complex of wetland and volatile waters on the northern edge of Stewart State Forests near Interstate 84 . A short distance further, it flows over the city limits to Montgomery and reaches New York State Route 17K . The Tin Brook flows north through a rural, mostly forested area, into which an unnamed tributary flows from the right before it even reaches New York State Route 52 . It then turns east, receives another tributary, and swings south to cross the State Route again.

The water meanders after passing a trailer park to the north. The Tin Brook now crosses State Route 52 between Berea and St. Andrew's Road. It then turns west and runs parallel to the highway until reaching Walden. There the run swings south and crosses State Route 52 again in a residential area. It makes a wide arc around Wooster Memorial Grove Park and comes so close to its own upper course that it is only separated from the access road. He resumes his southerly direction and crosses State Route 52 for the last time a short distance east of the park.

Tin Brook runs along State Route 52 for one block and then turns north, separating a residential area from a commercial property. In the wooded area north of the village of Walden, it swings west, passes under New York State Route 208 , and then empties into the Wallkill River.

history

The future colonial official Cadwallader Colden , whose approximately 12 km² property encompassed most of the Tin Brook headwaters, proposed in 1724 the canalization of the many waterways in New York to facilitate traffic in the colony. He decided to use his own land as a demonstration object. He diverted part of the water into an artificial lake that fed the first such canal in New York. Rafts were used to transport peat as fuel and building material for his house and other goods needed on the property.

From 1892 on, the river supplied water to Walden's first power station, a coal-fired power station on Elm Street there. At that time there were only the water mills on the Wallkill River in the region, which mainly generated electrical energy for the mills' own use. The facility on Elm Street - still standing today but used for other purposes - began supplying the village with electricity in 1893. Fifteen years later, the demand of the place exceeded the capacity of the power station. Since the manufacturing operations for knives on the river were in decline in the meantime, the mill systems began to feed electricity into the local network and thus supplement the factory on Elm Street.

ecology

Several regarded as threatened in New York newt species , including blue-spotted salamander , Jefferson cross tooth newt and marbled salamander depend in their habitat from the watercourse. Myotis sodalis , one from the federal government of the United States on the endangered Red List species run Mausohrenart uses the trees around him for nest building and foraging. The Carolina box turtle , forest brook turtle and tropical turtle also have their habitat at Tin Brook.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tin Brook in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
2. ↑ Town of Montgomery ( English ) In: History of Orange County . American Genealogy and History Project. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Draft Wallkill Watershed Conservation and Management Plan ( English , PDF) Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District. 2005. Archived from the original on July 15, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 10, 2009. 
4. ^ Margaret VS Wallace: The Erie Canal began in Little Britain, no, not in location, but in vision. ( English ) Orange County Post . 1969. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
5. ↑ History of Walden, New York ( English ) Retrieved on April 10, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.