Fox Creek | |
Pushpin Map: | New York Adirondack Park#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth within New York |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | New York |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Capital |
Subdivision Type4: | Counties |
Subdivision Name4: | Albany, Schoharie |
Length: | 24.8miles |
Source1 Location: | Berne |
Source1 Coordinates: | 42.5834°N -74.041°W[1] |
Source1 Elevation: | 1420feet |
Mouth: | Schoharie Creek |
Mouth Location: | Schoharie |
Mouth Coordinates: | 42.6881°N -74.3085°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 581feet |
Tributaries Left: | Switz Kill |
Tributaries Right: | Beaverdam Creek, Ox Kill, King Creek, Louse Kill |
Fox Creek is a 24.8adj=midNaNadj=mid[2] tributary of Schoharie Creek in Schoharie and Albany counties in the U.S. state of New York. It rises in the southeastern part of the town of Berne, west of the Helderberg Mountains, and flows west, passing through the hamlets of East Berne, Bensons Corner, Berne, and West Berne, continuing through the town of Wright, where it passes the hamlets of Gallupville and Shutter Corners before entering the town of Schoharie, where it flows into Schoharie Creek near the hamlet of Vroman Corners. Fox Creek is part of the Hudson River watershed, Via Schoharie Creek and the Mohawk River.
Near its mouth it is crossed by the Schoharie Bridge, a covered bridge near the Old Stone Fort, an American Revolutionary War-era structure.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains stream gauges along Fox Creek. The station on Drebitko Road, 2.9miles northeast of Schoharie has been recording daily measurements since 2017. It had a maximum discharge of per second on April 4, 1987, which is outside the period of record and therefore estimated and a minimum discharge of per second on July 16–17, 2018.[3]
Louse Kill converges with Fox Creek near Schoharie, New York.[4] Ox Kill converges with Fox Creek near Gallupville, New York.[5] King Creek converges with Fox Creek in Gallupville, New York.[6]