Neversink River
| Neversink River | |
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 The Neversink near Cuddebackville
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| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| Counties | Orange, Sullivan |
| City | Port Jervis |
| Source | East Branch Neversink River |
| - location | S of col between Slide and Cornell mountains, Town of Shandaken, Ulster County |
| - elevation | 2,960 ft (902 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°59′40″N 74°22′21″W / 41.99444°N 74.37250°W |
| Secondary source | West Branch Neversink River |
| - location | NW slope of Slide Mountain, Town of Shandaken |
| - elevation | 3,480 ft (1,061 m) |
| - coordinates | 42°00′19″N 74°23′29″W / 42.00528°N 74.39139°W |
| Source confluence | |
| - location | S of Claryville, Sullivan County |
| - elevation | 1,600 ft (488 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°54′57″N 74°34′29″W / 41.91583°N 74.57472°W |
| Mouth | Delaware River |
| - elevation | 400 ft (122 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°21′26″N 74°41′43″W / 41.35722°N 74.69528°WCoordinates: 41°21′26″N 74°41′43″W / 41.35722°N 74.69528°W |
| Length | 55 mi (89 km) |
| Basin | 435 sq mi (1,127 km2) |
| Discharge | for Godeffroy, NY |
| - average | 463 cu ft/s (13 m3/s) |
| - max | 33,000 cu ft/s (934 m3/s) |
| - min | 32 cu ft/s (1 m3/s) |
| Discharge elsewhere (average) | |
| - Claryville | 174 cu ft/s (5 m3/s) |
 The Neversink and its two branches
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The Neversink River (also called Neversink Creek in its upper course) is a 55-mile-long (89 km) tributary of the Delaware River in southeastern New York in the United States. The name of the river comes from an Algonquian language phrase meaning "mad river."
Because of Theodore Gordon expertly matching dry fishing flies to actual insects in the 1890s, and due to the research of Edward Ringwood Hewitt from his property above the town of Neversink, the Neversink River is considered by many to be the birthplace of American dry fly fishing.
The Neversink's main flow begins just south of the border between Ulster and Sullivan counties, where the east and west branches of the river join near the hamlet of Claryville. Both branches begin on the slopes of Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills. The west branch is joined by several major tributaries, such as Biscuit Brook and Pigeon Creek at Frost Valley YMCA in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County. In its upper course it is a rocky and wild stream, ideal for trout fishing although most of the land around it is privately owned.
Not far downriver from the confluence in Neversink, it is impounded to form the Neversink Reservoir. It is connected by a 5-mile (8 km) water tunnel to Rondout Reservoir, and subsequently to the Delaware Aqueduct. The Neversink Reservoir resulted in the displacement of many locals as several towns along the river were flooded to make the reservoir.
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