The book’s non-existent town is named Agloe, a few miles north of (actual place) Rockland, New York. I think that is actually a different place than you are speaking of above. I did a Google virtual drive by, I could see no town there … lol … somebody has done some big donuts at the intersection to where the turnoff to Agloe would be though. Last page of this link shows map detail.
If you lived in a Dutch Ghetto–as I do–you would know that “Kill” is a Dutch term for Creek, Stream, or other narrow bodies of water. If it’s a wider body of water, it is frequently referred to as a “Zee”, such as the Tappan Zee–which is just a very wide section of the Hudson River.
Just to keep this auto-related, my brother’s '64 VW Beetle was painted “Zee Blau” (Sea Blue). There are some similarities between the Dutch language and the German language.
In my neck of the woods, we have The Kill Van Kull, The Arthur Kill, and even the town of Peekskill.
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Not sure what you mean but fishkill is at the intersection of I 84 and us 9. Hyde park is north of there on us 9. They have the car there that fdr used to drive around the grounds. His mechanic rigged up hand controls since his legs suffered from polio. He liked to drive.
There’s a fairly common bird in Colorado named “Killdeer”. I believe its name is unrelated to the stream meaning of “kill”, but instead just the sound the bird makes, unique sounding chirp. I don’t recall ever seeing one in this area, may be less common at lower altitudes.
Woulda been a good name for my riviera.
Oops , the place I’m talking about is called “Beaverkill” rather than “Fishkill”. Same idea I expect, a stream used by beavers to build their dams. Intersection 17/206, near Roscoe NY. The non-existent town is located near Beaverkill Valley Road and 206. Google maps/satellite view shows some artistic & interesting tire marks at that intersection. Not too far away, 56 miles NW of Fishkill.
We have them here at a little less than a thousand ft. elevation.