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Water levels at the North Fork Kentucky River in Hazard didn’t quite reach record levels but still topped out at 25.74 feet at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, which is the highest it’s been since March 2021.
A long way by river along North Fork but a short distance by rail from Hazard is the Lennut railway station, which was opened to serve a mining camp operated by the North Fork Coal Company. [21] The Lennut post office was established on 1914-07-10 by postmaster Kelley E. Watts. [21]
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]
In southern Knott County, Carr Creek Lake rose over 15 feet (4.6 m) in 12 hours along the Carr Fork River, a tributary of the North Fork. [24] USGS river gauge for the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Whitesburg, showing water levels of almost 20 ft (6.1 m), exceeding the previous record level by over 5 ft (1.5 m).
Other parts of Kentucky and Indiana are under a hazardous weather outlook. There is an 80% chance of rain and thunderstorms Saturday in Louisville. Tornado confirmed in Todd County.
Lotts Creek is a creek in Perry County and Knott County, Kentucky in the United States. [2] [3] [1] It is a tributary of the North Fork Kentucky River that joins it at Darfork 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream of Hazard at an altitude of 820 feet (250 m).
From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.