Stinking Creek (Kentucky)

	Stinking Creek (Kentucky) Stinking Creek is a stream in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States. Stinking Creek was so named because early buffalo hunters were known to leave corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream. 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 ... References Rivers of Knox County, Kentucky Rivers of Kentucky {{Kentucky-river-stub ... [...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]
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	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]
picture info	Rivers Of Knox County, Kentucky A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ... is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "Burn (landform), burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]