Martins Fork is a river in

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and Harlan Counties in

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in the

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. The river flows east and north from its source in the

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, a subrange of the

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, to its confluence with the Poor Fork at Baxter. The confluence marks the official beginning of the

Cumberland River The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States. The U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed June 8, 2011 river drains almost of southern Kentucky and ...

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Rivers of Kentucky Tributaries of the Cumberland River Rivers of Bell County, Kentucky Rivers of Harlan County, Kentucky {{Kentucky-river-stub

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