Blackberry Creek (Kentucky)

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Blackberry Creek

Blackberry Creek is a stream in Pike County, Kentucky, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary of the Tug Fork, part of the Big Sandy River and thus the Ohio River watershed.

Blackberry Creek was named from the blackberry bushes near its banks. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blackberry Creek (Kentucky)
  2. "The Queerest Names On The Map". The Milwaukee Sentinel. April 11, 1943. p. 22. Retrieved 29 April 2015.

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