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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.
8,924 cu ft/s (252.7 m 3 /s), USGS water years 1977-2019 [1] 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 ]
Eagle Creek is a long meandering stream running through several counties in central Kentucky in the United States. It is a tributary of the Kentucky River , the confluence of which is near Worthville in Carroll County .
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 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.
Elkhorn Creek is an 99-mile-long (159 km) [5] stream running through several counties in central Kentucky in the United States.The stream drains an area of 499.5 square miles (1,294 km 2). [6]
The original route was turned into a sewer. In the 1920s, the stretch near Germantown was placed into a concrete channel. The current channelized state of the creek bed and Louisville's continued problems with Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) often leads to poor water quality in the creek.
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.