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Goose Rock
Goose Creek is a stream in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is one of two tributaries at the head of the South Fork of the Kentucky River, the other being the Red Bird River. It is long. Tributaries and post offices There have been 48 postoffices on Goose Creek and its tributaries (including the postoffice at Manchester) up to the turn of the 21st century. The tributaries are: * Little Goose Creek whose post offices and tributaries are in its article * Horse Creek whose post offices and tributaries are in its article * Wildcat Creek, location of Wildcat post office * Laurel Creek whose post offices and tributaries are in its article * Collins Creek whose post offices and tributaries are in its article * Grannies Branch * Billys Branch, long and reportedly named for a member of the local Sevier family * Martins Creek whose post offices and tributaries are in its article * Lockards Creek was named Lockhart Creek on late 19th and early 20th century geologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goose Creek (Louisville, Kentucky)
Goose Creek is a small stream in the Louisville Metro area (the former Jefferson County) of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is a tributary of the Ohio River. It is the namesake of the incorporated city of Goose Creek and the Louisville neighborhood of the same name, both of which lie beside its confluence with the Ohio. See also * List of rivers of Kentucky List of rivers in Kentucky (U.S. state). By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue o ... * Geography of Louisville, Kentucky References Rivers of Kentucky Landforms of Louisville, Kentucky Tributaries of the Ohio River {{Kentucky-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Creek, Kentucky
Laurel Creek is a tributary of Goose Creek river in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is long. The name comes from the proliferation of mountain laurel on its riverbanks. Tributaries and post offices Its eponymous post office was established by Joseph Hubbard on 1865-04-21, lasting until 1968. It was originally located at the mouth of what is now named Morgan Branch, a tributary of Laurel Creek that used to be named Falls Branch, and primarily served the area of Hubbardsville. It moved 3 miles downstream to the mouth of Collins Fork, another Laurel tributary, some time before 1902. It was a rural branch of Manchester post office from 1966 until its closure. Morgan Branch is also the location of the village, school, and postoffice of Fall Rock. Hubbardsville's second post office was named Caution, from 1902 to 1918, although postmaster George Hall wanted to call it Clio after his 5-year-old daughter. That clashed with an existing post office of the same name in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Kentucky
List of rivers in Kentucky (U.S. state). By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River. Also listed are some important tributaries to the few Kentucky rivers that originate in, or flow through, other states. *Mississippi River ** Obion Creek ** Mayfield Creek **Ohio River *** Goose Creek *** Massac Creek ***Tennessee River ****Clarks River ****Blood River ***Cumberland River ****Little River **** Red River **** Obey River (Tennessee) ***** Wolf River **** Big South Fork of the Cumberland River ****Rockcastle River ****Laurel River **** Clear Fork ***Tradewater River ***Green River **** Panther Creek ****Pond River ****Rough River **** Mud River ****Barren River *****Gasper River **** Little Reedy Creek **** Big Reedy Creek **** Bear Creek **** Nolin River **** Little Barren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goose Creek Salt Works
Garrard is a coal town in Clay County, Kentucky, United States on the junction of United States Highway 421 and Kentucky Highway 80, south of Manchester. It was established in 1806 by James Garrard's son Daniel (1780–1866) as a salt works, he having bought the land in 1798, but didn't actually gain the name until the Cumberland and Manchester Railroad came through there in 1917. It was through the 19th century rather known as variously the Goose Creek Salt Works (after the adjacent Goose Creek), the Union Salt Works, the Buffalo Lick Salt Works, or just The Salt Works. Its post office was established on 1917-04-28 by postmaster James H. Brashear, and ''that'' was named Garrard, likely not after James or Daniel but rather after James' great-grandsons William Toulmin Garrard and Edward Gibson Garrard, who owned the land, although another story is that it was named after James' grandson Theophilus T. Garrard. Garrard family connections Members of the Garrard family bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knox County, Kentucky
Knox County is a county located in Appalachia near the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,193. Its county seat is Barbourville. The county is named for General Henry Knox. It is one of the few coal-producing counties in Kentucky that has not suffered massive population loss. Knox County is included in the London, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Knox County was formed on December 19, 1799, from portions of Lincoln County. It is usually assumed to be named for Henry Knox of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary War general and the first United States Secretary of War. However, there is strong evidence that it was actually named for James Knox. Knox was a pre-war explorer and long hunter, a veteran of Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War, a pioneer guide, road-builder, and legislator. Knox had used the Wilderness Road, which traverses the county, as an explorer and later oversaw its improvement into a wagon road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogle, Kentucky
Ogle is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States. Ogle is located on Otter Creek Road south-southeast of Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t .... There is no town. It does not appear on the 1900 census, where people are listed rather as living in Otter Creek. The origin of the name is unknown. The Ogle post office was established in April 1893, with Morris Jackson as the first postmaster. Cross-reference Sources * Further reading * Unincorporated communities in Clay County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{ClayCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullitt County, Kentucky
Bullitt County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 82,217. Its county seat is Shepherdsville. The county was founded in 1796. Located just south of the city of Louisville, Bullitt County is included in the Louisville/ Jefferson County, KY- IN Metropolitan Statistical Area, commonly known as Kentuckiana. The western fifth of the county (62 sq. miles/) is part of the United States Army post of Fort Knox and is reserved for military training. History The first inhabitants of the land that would become Bullitt County were the Paleo-Indians who entered North America approximately 11,500 to 10,000 years BP. These people, whose ancestors can be traced back to Eastern and Central Asia, were nomadic. They were hunters and gatherers whose remains have been discovered near the area's mineral springs or salt licks, where big game such as the mammoth, bison and ground sloth once gathered. Native Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beech Creek, Clay County, Kentucky
Beech Creek is a tributary of Goose Creek in Clay County, Kentucky. It is just under long and joins the Goose approximately below the mouth of Laurel Creek. Its headwaters are at Combs Lake in the Beech Creek Wildlife Area. Tributaries and post offices The mouth of Beech is upstream of Oneida, at altitude above sea level. * Its major tributaries are: ** Little Beech Creek upstream The Mount Welcome postoffice was established on 1849-08-29 by postmaster Reuben May, and closed in July 1852. The Tankersley postoffice was established on 1882-07-31 by husband and wife postmasters James Franklin Tankersley and Drucilla Tankersley. It was not named for themselves but for James' father, John M. Tankersley (born in 1810 and whose surname was spelled Tankisley in the 1870 census). Initially it was opposite the mouth of Beech Creek, moving downstream along Goose by to Houchell Bend, and back up to Beech some time before the 1950s. It was back at Beech Creek by the time of its cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martins Creek (Kentucky)
Martins Creek is a tributary of Goose Creek in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky that used to have a Martins Creek post office. It is long and named for early settler Salathiel Martin. Tributaries and post offices Its eponymous postoffice was established on 1876-07-10 by postmasters Marshall Corum and George D. Mahan, and closed on 1878-09-20. It was located just downstream on the Goose from the mouth of Martins. The Wages postoffice was established on 1884-02-06 by William Wages, and closed in November 1885. It was located upstream along the creek from its mouth. His first choice of name had actually been Martins Creek. The Plank postoffice was established on 1906-12-07 by postmaster George W. Walker, and closed in September 1992. It was located upstream along the creek from its mouth. It served several lumber mills and the store of J. B. Walker, and local oral history is that its name was taken from a plank of wood propped against the wall of one of the aforementi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collins Creek (Kentucky)
Collins Creek, also known as Collins Fork, is a tributary of Goose Creek in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is long; is named for its first settler James Collins, a salt maker and hunter; joins Goose just south of Garrard; and is paralleled by (Kentucky Route 11) road and ( Cumberland and Manchester Railroad) railway for most of its course. Tributaries and post offices The tributaries are: * Buzzard Creek, long **Saplings Fork, previously known as Furnace Branch, whose mouth is along Buzzard * Engine Branch * Whites Branch On Buzzard Creek Willowdale postoffice was established on 1901-09-07 by postmaster Ella White. She named it for the preponderance of willow trees in the area, which was likely at the mouth of Furnace Branch/Saplings Fork. Lincoln postoffice was established on 1923-05-26 by postmaster Hughey L. Tanksley. His original choice of name was Harding, which clashed with an already existing ''Hardin'' postoffice in Marshall County, his choices of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Creek (Kentucky)
Horse Creek is a tributary of Goose Creek river in Clay County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The Cumberland and Manchester Railway built a spur line up the creek, and it has been the site of operations of at least eight coal mining companies. The name comes, according to local tradition, from the proliferation of " horseweed" in the creek valley. Tributaries and post offices One of the creek's own tributaries is the Paw Paw Branch, location of Siebert town, railroad depot, and erstwhile postoffice. The mouth of the Crawfish Branch tributary to the creek is the location of the Crawfish pos toffice, established on March 29, 1907, by postmaster Hugh Gregory. It is south of Manchester and the creek that it serves is long. However, the station on the spur line, a loading depot for the coal mining operations, was named Hima. On May 4, 1920, then postmaster David Gregory renamed the post office to the name of the railway stop. The mouth of the long Pigeon Roost Branch tributary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
