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of the

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in central

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in the

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rivers, it is a part of the

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of the

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. According to legend, Nolin River was so named when a group of hunters camped on a knoll near the river and a member of the hunting party, Benjamin Lynn, became lost. The story continues the rest of the party returned to the knoll where someone said "Here is the knoll, but no Lynn!" The lost hunter was later found alive and well camped out at nearby

Lynn Camp Creek Lynn Camp Creek is a stream in Hart County, Kentucky, Hart and LaRue County, Kentucky, LaRue counties, Kentucky, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Green River (Kentucky), Green River. Lynn Camp Creek was named for Benjamin Lynn, an exp ...

. The

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settled on "Nolin River" as the stream's name in 1933. As a child,

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swam there. The Nolin River is formed in western

LaRue County LaRue County is a County (United States), county in the central region of the U.S. state of Kentucky, outside the Bluegrass Region and larger population centers. Its county seat is Hodgenville, Kentucky, Hodgenville, which is best known as the b ...

by the confluence of its short North and South Forks, both of which flow for their entire lengths in LaRue County; the North Fork flows past Hodgenville. The Nolin then flows generally southwestwardly through or along the boundaries of Hardin, Grayson,

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and Edmonson counties. It joins the Green River in the western part of

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, about northeast of Brownsville. The Nolin River at

Kyrock, Kentucky Kyrock is a ghost town in Edmonson County in south central Kentucky. The ghost town is located about east of Sweeden, or about north-northeast of the county seat of Brownsville. It was once a referred to as a “company town” along the N ...

measures approximately 989 cubic feet per second on average. In Edmonson County, a

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causes the river to form

Nolin River Lake Nolin River Lake is a reservoir in Edmonson, Grayson, and Hart counties in Kentucky. It was impounded from the Nolin River by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1963. The Nolin River dam was authorized in 1938 as part of a flood cont ...

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Rivers of Kentucky Rivers of Edmonson County, Kentucky Rivers of Grayson County, Kentucky Rivers of Hardin County, Kentucky Rivers of Hart County, Kentucky Rivers of LaRue County, Kentucky Green River (Kentucky) {{Kentucky-river-stub

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