Stinking Creek is a stream in
Knox County, Kentucky
Knox County is a county located in Appalachia near the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,193. Its county seat is Barbourville. The county is named for General Henry Knox. It is one ...
, in the
United States
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.
Stinking Creek was so named because early
buffalo hunters were known to leave corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream.
See also
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List of rivers of Kentucky
List of rivers in Kentucky (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue o ...
References
Rivers of Knox County, Kentucky
Rivers of Kentucky
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