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Cruises Creek is a stream in Boone and Kenton counties, Kentucky, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary of the Licking River . Cruise Creek was named for Captain Cruise, an explorer who was killed near the stream in 1784.
The Green River Shell Middens Archeological District is a historic district composed of archaeological sites in the U.S. state of Kentucky.All of the district's sites are shell middens along the banks of the Green River that date from the later portion of the Archaic period. [2]
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]
“Those who love to enjoy the serenity of the water in a kayak or canoe will be able to get into the river in Fayette County, and travel up to 12 miles between locks,” said Mayor Linda Gorton.
The main stem of the Kentucky River is formed near Beattyville in Lee County by the confluence of the North, Middle, and South Forks. [3] The river flows generally northwest, in a highly meandering course through the Eastern Coalfield and the Daniel Boone National Forest before turning southwest north of Richmond and then north through Frankfort .
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 Red River Gorge is named after the river that helped to form it, the Red River. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the river, located within the gorge, runs through Powell County and into ...
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...