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The Kentucky River basin endured many floods during the Great Depression. An Ohio River flood in 1936 backed into the lower Kentucky; the crest reached 42.7 feet (13.0 m) high and flooded half of Frankfort, completely isolating the city. 12,000 square miles (31,000 km 2) of the Ohio Valley were flooded in all. [14]
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.
The Tradewater River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 136 miles (219 km) long, [1] in western Kentucky in the United States. [2] It drains an area of 932 square miles (2,410 km 2 ) in the limestone hills south of Evansville, Indiana , between the basins of the Cumberland River on the west and the Green River on the east.
The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7] in western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States. The river forms part of the ...
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.
All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River. Also listed are some important tributaries to the few Kentucky rivers that originate in, or flow through, other states.
The Green River is a 384-mile-long (618 km) [3] tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky. Tributaries of the Green River include the Barren River, the Nolin River, the Pond River and the Rough River. The river was named after Nathanael Greene, a general of the American Revolutionary War. [4]
The rivers goes on and gains size when the Beech Fork joins it near Youngers Creek, a community in Hardin County that borders Nelson County. Eventually, the Rolling Fork joins the Salt River at the Hardin County - Bullitt County line. The Salt River empties into the Ohio River about 9 miles (14 km) later, at West Point, Kentucky.