Podunk River - Wikipedia

The Podunk River is a stream in Hartford County, Connecticut.^[1] It is a tributary to the Connecticut River.^[2]

The stream headwaters arise at 41°51′09″N 72°31′31″W / 41.85250°N 72.52528°W / 41.85250; -72.52528^[1] at an elevation of 305 ft (93 m).^[3] The stream flows to the southwest and enters the Connecticut River just northwest of East Hartford^[2] at 41°47′08″N 72°38′37″W / 41.78556°N 72.64361°W / 41.78556; -72.64361 and an elevation of 7 ft (2.1 m).^[1]

The name is derived from the Algonquin words pod for low and unk for beyond or "the low land beyond" or along the Connecticut and its tributary the Podunk River where they farmed the fertile soil along the streams.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Podunk River
^ ^a ^b Hartford North CT, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1964 (1992 rev.)
^ Manchester, CT, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1963 (1992 rev.)
^ Jim Shea, Proud to be Podunk, The Hartford Courant, January 22, 2007

Rivers of Connecticut by drainage system

Long Island Sound

Black Rock Harbor	Ash Creek Rooster River
Bridgeport Harbor	Pequonnock River
Connecticut River Watershed	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Podunk River Salmon River Scantic River
Housatonic River Watershed	Blackberry River East Aspetuck River Housatonic River Konkapot River Mad River Naugatuck River Pomperaug River Rocky River Schenob Brook Shepaug River Still River Ten Mile River Whiting River
Little Narragansett Bay (Pawcatuck River Watershed)	Ashaway River Green Fall River Pawcatuck River Shunock River Wood River
Milford Harbor	Wepawaug River
New Haven Harbor	Mill River Quinnipiac River West River
Norwalk Harbor (Norwalk River Watershed)	Norwalk River Silvermine River
Saugatuck River Watershed	Aspetuck River Saugatuck River
Thames River Watershed	Basset Brook Beaver Brook Bigelow Brook Fenton River Fishers Brook Five Mile River French River Hop River Little River Merrick Brook Moosup River Mount Hope River Natchaug River Oxoboxo River Pachaug River Quinebaug River Shetucket River Thames River Willimantic River Yantic River
Others	Black Hall River Byram River Cove River Farm River Hammonasset River Indian River Mianus River Mill River (Fairfield) Mystic River Niantic River Noroton River Oyster River Rippowam River

Upper New York Bay

Hudson River Watershed	Titicus River