Goose Creek is a
small stream in the
Louisville Metro
The government of Louisville, Kentucky, headquartered at Louisville City Hall in Downtown Louisville, is organized under Chapter 67C of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as a First-Class city in the state of Kentucky. Created after the merger of the ...
area (the former
Jefferson County) of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
.
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
*
Geography of Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is a city in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the Falls of the Ohio River.
Louisville is located at . According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Louisville Metro (in 2015 measurements for Jefferson County) ...
References
Rivers of Kentucky
Landforms of Louisville, Kentucky
Tributaries of the Ohio River
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