Saw Kill

Saw Kill may refer to three different bodies of water in New York. Two are tributaries and make up watersheds on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. The northernmost of these is in the Town of Stuyvesant, New York in Columbia County and the southernmost of these is in the Town of Red Hook, New York in Dutchess County. The northern Saw Kill is more commonly known as Mill Creek today. The third tributary drains into Esopus Creek on the Hudson’s west bank. This article refers to the southern body of water on the east bank as Saw Kill (east) and the body of water on the west bank as Saw Kill (west).

Saw Kill (east)

42°01′02″N 73°55′03″W / 42.017261°N 73.917367°W / 42.017261; -73.917367Coordinates: 42°01′02″N 73°55′03″W / 42.017261°N 73.917367°W / 42.017261; -73.917367

Geography

The Saw Kill watershed is 22 square miles in Dutchess County. It lies underneath Tivoli, Red Hook, and Milan and between the Hudson River to the west and the Taconic Mountains to the east. It is one of the nine biggest drainage basins in Dutchess County by size; “Approximately 67 percent of the county’s 807 square miles drain to the Hudson River through the Wappinger Creek, Fishkill Creek, and several smaller streams including the Casperkill, Fall Kill, Crum Elbow, Landsmankill, Saw Kill, and Stony Creek.”