Stinking Creek (Kentucky)
Stinking Creek is a stream in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States.[1]
Stinking Creek was so named because hunters were known to leave stinking corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stinking Creek (Kentucky)
- ^ Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 856. ISBN 0-8131-2883-8.
Coordinates: 36°50′15″N 83°48′58″W / 36.837587°N 83.816033°W
Categories:
- Rivers of Knox County, Kentucky
- Rivers of Kentucky
- Knox County, Kentucky geography stubs
- Kentucky river stubs