Cohocton River - Definition and Overview

The Cohocton River is a tributary of the Chemung River, approximately 55 mi (89 km), in western New York in the United States.

It rises in southeastern Livingston County, approximately 15 mi (24 km) northeast of Dansville. It flows generally southeast through rural Steuben County, in a winding course through a valley the Appalachian Mountains, past Bath. At Painted Post, just west of Corning, it is joined by the Tioga River from the southwest to form the Chemung, a tributary of the Susquehanna River.

New York State Highway 17 follows the valley of the river along much of its route through Steuben County.

In the 1820s the New York State Legislature commissioned a study for the building of a canal that would link the Cohocton at Bath to Keuka Lake (Crooked Lake) and Seneca Lake. The Crooked Lake Canal connecting the two lakes was built but the link to the Cohocton was never completed.

The river is a popular destination for fly fishing.

See also

• List of New York rivers

External links

• USGS: Cohocton River (http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/nypesticides/sites/27cohoct.html)
• Crooked Lake Canal (http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/whitford/old1906/chapter15.htm)