OnlYersity ol the State of New York Bulletin 



Entered as second-class matter August 2, 1913, at the Post OflSce at Albany, N. Y., under 



the Act of August 24, 191 2 



Published fortnightly 

 No. 561 ALBANY, N. Y. February 15, 191 4 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



Museum Bulletin 170 



GEOLOGY OF THE NORTH CREEK QUADRANGLE, 

 WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK 



BY 

 WILLIAM T. MILLER 



INTRODUCTION 



The North Creek quadrangle comprises an are^t^4tJ^I|l^oSBil^ly 

 215 square miles in the southeastern Adirondack's. The map ^ 

 covers one-sixteenth of a square degree which lies wholly 

 within Warren county. A branch of the Delaware and Hudson 

 Railroad from Saratoga Springs passes through the region from 

 southeast to northwest, with a terminus at North Creek village. 

 This railroad is an important entry into the southeastern Adiron- 

 dacks, especially for summer tourists. 



The principal villages of the quadrangle are North Creek, Hori- 

 con, Potters ville, Chestertown, Wevertown, and Johnsburg with 

 Warrensburg very close to the southeastern corner. Considered 

 as a region so distinctly within the Adirondack Precambric rock 

 area, it is unusally thickly settled and well supplied with roads, 

 which have been a great help in making a detailed study of the 

 complicated geologic features of the cjuadrangle. Agriculture is 

 the principal industry, though during the summer months a large 

 number of visitors come to the numerous hotels and summer board- 

 ing places, especially those in the larger villages and around the 

 lakes. This region, like the Adirondacks in general, was formerly 

 heavily forested but the first growth timber has largely been cut 

 off so that the lumbering industry is now nothing like that of earlier 

 years. 



1 See map in pocket of hack cover of this hullctin. 



