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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] Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2), and it ...
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.
Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky) South Fork Kentucky River. Squabble Creek. Tearcoat Creek. Tennessee River. Tradewater River. Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Tygarts Creek. Wolf River.
The Kentucky River Palisades is a cliff-lined entrenched meander.The meanders originally formed on the Lexington Peneplain.As sea-level lowered during the Quaternary Period, base level lowered and the meander-form river eroded downward into Ordovician-age limestones, shales, and dolomites in the Central Bluegrass Region.
North Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. [2] It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville . [ 2 ] It is nearly 148 miles (238 km) long with an average slope of 3.2 feet per mile (0.61 m/km), [ 3 ] and an overall basin size (at Jackson) of 1,101 square miles (2,850 km 2 ) [ 4 ]
Several largely ineffective attempts were made in the 19th century to make South Fork navigable all of the way upstream to the Goose Creek Salt Works. [3] An Act of the legislature on 1811-01-10 enabled a lottery to raise US$10,000 (equivalent to $183,120 in 2023) towards making this reach of the river navigable, and several times the scheme was allowed more time, but by 1813 still nothing had ...
Ford L&N Bridge (closed) L&N Kentucky River Bridge. CSX Transportation. Joseph Proctor Memorial Bridge. KY 499. Irvine and West Irvine. Captain Zachary Chase Clevenger Memorial Bridge. KY 52. Heidelberg Bridge.
Middle Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. [ 1] It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville. [ 1] It is approximately 85 miles (137 km) long. [citation needed] It rises in the Appalachian Mountains in extreme southeastern Kentucky, in northeastern Harlan County, approximately 5 mi ...