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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 ]
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.
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.
Salt Lick Creek (Kentucky) Salt River (Kentucky) Sap Branch; Sextons Creek, Kentucky; Shaker Creek (Kentucky) Silver Creek (Kentucky) Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky) Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky) South Fork Kentucky River; Squabble Creek (Kentucky) Stepstone Creek; Stinking Creek (Kentucky) Stoner Creek (Kentucky)
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.
This is a complete list of current bridges of the Kentucky River from its mouth at the Ohio River at Carrollton, Kentucky and Prestonville, Kentucky upstream to the split of the three forks at Beattyville, Kentucky. The entire river is located in Kentucky.
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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.