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Salt Lick is located at the intersection of US 60 and KY 211 beside the Licking River. It is part of the Mount Sterling micropolitan area . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km 2 ), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 1.15%, is water.
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. [5] Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around the sulfur springs. [6]
KY 36 southwest of Upper Salt Lick: Major intersections: US 60 in Salt Lick: North end: Sparrow Road near Salt Lick: Northern segment; Length: 0.500 mi (805 m) South end: Aurora Road near Grange City: North end: KY 1722 in rural Rowan: Location; Country: United States: State: Kentucky: Counties: Bath, Rowan: Highway system; Kentucky State ...
Big Bone Lick settlement shown in 1785 on a map of the Wilderness Road in Kentucky and Tennessee. Big Bone is an unincorporated community in southern Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the west by the Ohio River, and Rabbit Hash, on the south by Big Bone Creek, which empties into the river at Big Bone Landing.
The Salt River is a 150-mile-long (240 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Kentucky that drains 2,920 square miles (7,600 km 2). It begins near Parksville, Kentucky , rising from the north slope of Persimmon Knob south of KY 300 between Alum Springs and Wilsonville, and ends at the Ohio River near West Point .
The Licking River is a partly navigable, 303-mile-long (488 km) [2] tributary of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky.The river and its tributaries drain much of the region of northeastern Kentucky between the watersheds of the Kentucky River to the west and the Big Sandy River to the east.
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Salt Lick Creek is a stream in Lewis County, Kentucky, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary of the Ohio River. The mineral lick from which Salt Lick Creek took its name was noted by settlers in the 18th century. [2] Salt Lick Creek appeared on maps as early as the 1740s. [3]