Tributaries and other locations
* Its major tributaries are: ** Mill Branch upstream, mouth at headwaters at ** Leatherwood Branch, mouth at headwaters at ** Cockerell's Fork (also Cockrell Fork) upstream, mouth at headwaters at ** Ten Mile Creek upstream at an altitude of , mouth at *** Rock House Fork, mouth at headwaters at **** Hollybush Branch, mouth at headwaters at ** Collins Branch upstream ** Low Gap Branch upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at ** Fifteen Mile Creek upstream at an altitude of , mouth at ** Sixteen Mile Creek upstream at an altitude of , mouth at *** Strong Branch upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at *** Hiram Branch upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at ** Low Gap Branch upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at ** Will Branch upstream ** Camp Branch upstream ** Bowman Branch upstream ** Rock Fork upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at ** Laurel Fork upstream at an altitude of , mouth at headwaters at The Ten, Fifteen, and Sixteen Mile Creeks are straightforwardly named for their distances upstream from Lost Creek mouth, a common naming convention in Kentucky.in Perry County
Lost Creek has had two post offices in the parts of its watershed that are in Perry County. Dice post office was authorized by William Campbell on 1903-05-09, but not established as the authorization was rescinded two months later. It was located near to the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek. The local folklore is that it was named for someone named Dice, Dicie, or Dicey; although one recorded hypothesis that it was named for a Dicie Campbell, born in 1903, is clearly erroneous. It was actually established on 1908-12-26 by postmaster Matt Combs, but only lasted until the middle of May 1911. It was established on 1923-02-15 by postmaster Andrew Jones, by which point there was a small village at Sixteen Mile Creek, but closed again in November 1936. It was established for a third time on 1942-08-13. It still exists today. The Engle post office was established on 1959-03-07 by James B. Engle with his wife Frankie as the postmaster. Engle had originally wanted the name Oliver but that was already in use elsewhere in Breathitt. It started out on the Rock House Fork of Ten Mile Creek, moving along the creek to the Hollybush Branch of Ten Mile in 1938. It closed in 1980.in Breathitt County
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The Ned post office was established on 1886-02-26 by postmaster Jeremiah Combs. Popular folklore is that it was named for Edward P. "Ned" Turner, his son-in-law who married Mary Elizabeth Combs, but at the time Edward was only 12, unmarried (the marriage being in 1891) and still living with his family on Middle Fork. It is more probable that Combs named it for his neighbour, Edward "Ned" Sizemore. The post office was at Cockerell's Fork, and a village including two mills and three general stores (including Combs's) grew up in the 1890s. The post office was taken over by Jeremiah's son John W. Combs who moved it upstream to the mouth of minor tributary Perkin's Branch. When it closed in 1984 it had been re-located back to Cockrell's Fork. The Leatherwood post office was established on 1913-06-18 by postmaster Lewis Watts. It closed in April 1919, to be re-established sometime in the winter of 1934–1935. It was renamed Watts after the Watts family in 1949, although its environs remained known as Leatherwood. It remained open as a rural branch office from 1965 to 1973. In 1910 L. H. Noble had a mine and a house at Leatherwood Branch, owning the land there. There was a Noble farm on a minor fork of Cockerell's Fork. (See Rowdy and Stacy for the adjacent Noble Fork of Troublesome Creek.) Green Noble had a mine at Low Gap Branch. John Collingsworth had a mine on Collins Branch. Mahlon Jones had a mine in 1918 on Will Branch, and owned land on Low Gap Branch.Lost Creek post office in Troublesome village
The Lost Creek post office was established on 1848-10-11 by postmaster Joseph B. Haddix. The village that grew around it in the 1880s was known as Troublesome, and included general stores (Day's and Sallee's) and a steam-powered saw and grist mill owned by a later postmaster named F. M. Day. The post office still exists today, and has ZIP code 41348.Climate
Many homes along the Creek were destroyed in a flash-flood that hit Troublesome Creek and its tributaries in July 2022.See also
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