Stinking Creek (Kentucky)

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Stinking Creek is a stream in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States. [1]

Stinking Creek was so named because early buffalo hunters were known to leave corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stinking Creek (Kentucky)
  2. Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 856. ISBN   0-8131-2883-8.

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