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This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River.
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 ]
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.
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.
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 ]
The Rolling Fork [1] is a 108-mile-long (174 km) [2] river in central Kentucky. The river flows through Marion and Hardin counties, as well as being the border between LaRue and Nelson counties. The Rolling Fork drains much of the land in these counties, and is a key part of life in this area of the Knob Region.
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.
The Ohio Valley is a sub region in Kentucky running 658 miles (1,059 km) long including parts of 25 counties and across five regions of the state. Over 45% of Kentucky's population live in counties that border the Ohio River, although those counties are only 16% of the state's land area.