The Chenango River is a 90-mile-long (140 km) tributary of the Susquehanna River in central New York in the United States. It drains a dissected plateau area in upstate New York at the northern end of the Susquehanna watershed.
4-695: The Sangerfield River flows into the Chenango River by Earlville, New York . This article related to a river in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chenango River Named after the Oneida word for bull thistle , in the 19th century the Chenango furnished a critical link in the canal system of the northeastern United States . The Chenango Canal , built from 1836–1837 between Utica and Binghamton, connected
8-781: The Erie Canal in the north to the Susquehanna River. The canal was rendered obsolete by railroads and was abandoned in 1878. Flooding is often a concern during the spring and fall. The Chenango River begins near Morrisville in Madison County , in central New York, in the Morrisville Swamp in the Town of Smithfield, about 25 miles southwest of Utica . The river flows from the Campbell Lakes in
12-550: The river. Continuing south the Chenango is joined by the Sangerfield River , also known as the East Branch of the Chenango, just south of Earlville. Then it flows south past Sherburne to Norwich , where it turns southwest. At Oxford it turns south, and at Warn Lake it again turns southwest. It flows past Brisben and Greene to Chenango Forks , where, about nine miles north of Binghamton , it receives from
16-469: The swamp, from waters flowing in from the Smithfield Hills to the north and west and a series of cliffs called "The Ledges" to the north and east. It flows south-southeast through the swamp. From Morrisville, it flows south past Eaton and is paralleled by the remnants of the old Chenango Canal from Randallsville , just south of Hamilton , to just north of Earlville where the old canal joined
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