Cruises Creek

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Cruises Creek is a stream in Boone and Kenton counties, Kentucky, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary of the Licking River.

Cruise Creek was named for Captain Cruise, an explorer who was killed near the stream in 1784. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cruises Creek
  2. Collins, Lewis (1877). History of Kentucky. p. 442.

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