Sparkill Creek
Sparkill Creek is a tributary of the Hudson River in Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States. It flows through the Sparkill Gap in the Hudson Palisades, which was created by a fault line which provided the only sea-level break in the Palisades.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in New Jersey and New York, United States
- Also known as: “Spar Kil”, “Sparkill Brook”, “Tapaan Creek”, “Tappan Creek”, “Tappan Sloat”, and “Tappan Slote”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piermont station and Ardsley-on-Hudson station.
Piermont station
Building
Photo: RussNelson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piermont Railroad Station is a historic train station located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1873 by the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, later acquired by the Erie Railroad.
Ardsley-on-Hudson station
Railway station
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ardsley-on-Hudson station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in the Ardsley Park area of Irvington, New York. It serves both the neighborhood and the northern part of the village of Dobbs Ferry; the main campus of Mercy College is within walking distance of the station. Ardsley-on-Hudson station is situated 2 miles southeast of Sparkill Creek.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Christ Church, also known as Christ Episcopal Church, is a historic Episcopal church located at Sparkill in Rockland County, New York. It was designed by architect Charles Babcock and built in 1864–1865.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piermont and Sparkill.
Piermont
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Piermont is a village incorporated in 1847 in Rockland County, New York, United States. Piermont is in the town of Orangetown, located north of the hamlet of Palisades, east of Sparkill, and south of Grand View-on-Hudson, on the west bank of the Hudson River.
Sparkill
Village
Photo: Taurus876, Public domain.
Sparkill, formerly known as Tappan Sloat, is a suburban hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Palisades; east of Tappan; south of Piermont and west of the Hudson River.
Irvington
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Irvington is a village of 6,500 people in Westchester County in the state of New York. It takes its name from the author Washington Irving, who lived nearby.
Sparkill Creek
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bergen County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Sparkill Creek” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sparkill Creek”
- Venetian: “Sparkill”
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Localities in the Area
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