Hickman Creek is approximately 22 square mile tributary of the
Kentucky River. Before flowing into the Kentucky River, Hickman Creek is formed from two separate creeks, East Hickman and West Hickman. West Hickman Creek flows through
Fayette County, Kentucky and
Jessamine County, Kentucky
Jessamine County () is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 52,991. Its county seat is Nicholasville, Kentucky, Nicholasville. The county was ...
. Via the Kentucky and
Ohio rivers, it is part of the
Mississippi River watershed. Hickman Creek flows through 3 parks in Kentucky, Jacobson Park, Veterans Park and Belleau Woods Park.
Hickman Creek Conservancy was incorporated on January 1 of 2019 as a 501C3 non-profit organization in response to the community's concern with clean water. The Conservancy works with the city of Lexington's Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grant Program to improve water quality and educate citizens in the community. Continuing education about water quality in the Lexington area, the Geocaching Challenge was created as a fun outdoor treasure hunt which visits 12 water-related points of interest.
At Highway 1268 near
Camp Nelson, the creek has a mean annual discharge of 192 cubic feet per second, from data collected in the years 2008–2015.
Hickman Creek is currently ranked #11 of the top 20 best
smallmouth bass streams in the state by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
Some of the species of fish in Hickman Creek are smallmouth bass,
largemouth bass,
rock bass,
bluegill
The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or "copper nose" as is common in Texas, is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and ...
,
channel catfish
The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus'') is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, the ...
, common carp, and
spotted gar. The occasional muskellunge can be seen in the Spring months as well.
See also
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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 o ...
References
5. “Lexington Creek Sweep.” ''City of Lexington'',
https://www.lexingtonky.gov/CreekSweep.
6.“Stormwater Quality Projects Incentive Grant Program.” ''City of Lexington'', 2021,
https://www.lexingtonky.gov/stormwater-incentive-grant-program.
7.“Welcome to the Hickman Creek Conservancy.” ''Hickman Creek Conservancy'', 2019,
https://www.hickmancreek.org/.
8.“Water Quality Geocaching Challenge.” ''City of Lexington'', 2021,
https://www.lexingtonky.gov/geocaching.
Rivers of Kentucky
Rivers of Jessamine County, Kentucky
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