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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pup Creek
- ↑ History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. Inter-state Publishing Company. 1883. p. 599.
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