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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 of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River.
The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Kentucky, United States. The 260-mile (420 km) river and its tributaries drain much of eastern and central Kentucky, passing through the Eastern Coalfield , the Cumberland Mountains , and the Bluegrass region . [ 2 ]
Map of major river basins These are the major U.S. river basins in the U.S., as designated by the U.S. Water Resources Council. [ 1 ] Each of these river basins contain a number of smaller river basins.
Wild and Scenic Red River in Wolfe County Autumn river landscape on the lower Red River. The Red River is a 97.2-mile-long (156.4 km) [2] tributary of the Kentucky River in east-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30] Its major internal rivers include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Green River and Licking River.
The Ohio River Basin below the confluence with the Kanawha River Basin to the confluence with the Kentucky River Basin, excluding the Big Sandy, Great Miami, Guyandotte, Kentucky, Licking and Scioto River Basins. Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. 8,850 sq mi (22,900 km 2) HUC0509: 0510 Kentucky–Licking Subregion Subregion: The ...
North Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. [3] It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville . [ 3 ] It is nearly 148 miles (238 km) long with an average slope of 3.2 feet per mile (0.61 m/km), [ 1 ] and an overall basin size (at Jackson) of 1,101 square miles (2,850 km 2 ) [ 4 ]
Salt Lick Creek (Kentucky) Salt River (Kentucky) Sap Branch; Sextons Creek, Kentucky; Shaker Creek (Kentucky) Silver Creek (Kentucky) Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky) Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky) South Fork Kentucky River; Squabble Creek (Kentucky) Stepstone Creek; Stinking Creek (Kentucky) Stoner Creek (Kentucky)