The Chaplin River is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed May 13, 2011 tributary of the Beech Fork of the Salt River in the

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. The name comes from Captain Abraham Chapline, an early explorer of the area.Chaplin town, University of Kentucky website.
Retrieved March 18, 2009. The river's headwaters begin on the knob edges of the Pennyroyal Plateau near

Parksville, Kentucky Parksville is a small unincorporated area, unincorporated community on the Chaplin River in south central Boyle County, Kentucky, Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the eastern end of Ky Route 300, where it intersects with Ky ...

and the

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, flow in parallel with the Salt River proper through the hilly Eden Shale belt and ending at the Beech Fork of the Salt River near the town of

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. The river flows through the counties of

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, and

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. The river flows through the middle of Perryville, the site of an 1862 American Civil War battle. The stream was a strategic natural resource used by both the Union and

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armies, though the river is but a large stream at this point in its journey.

References

Rivers of Kentucky Rivers of Washington County, Kentucky Rivers of Mercer County, Kentucky Rivers of Boyle County, Kentucky Salt River (Kentucky) {{Kentucky-river-stub

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