Martins Creek is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
of
Goose Creek in
Clay County Clay County is the name of 18 counties in the United States. Most are named for Henry Clay, U.S. Senator and statesman:
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in the
U.S. state 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 to ...
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 aforementioned mills, a lumbermill practice that was used to boast that it had sawn the longest plank in the area.
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
Sources
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Further reading
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Rivers of Kentucky
Rivers of Clay County, Kentucky
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