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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] Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2), and it ...
Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky) South Fork Kentucky River. Squabble Creek. Tearcoat Creek. Tennessee River. Tradewater River. Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Tygarts Creek. Wolf River.
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.
Laurel River. Lawrence Creek (Kentucky) Levisa Fork. Little Goose Creek (Kentucky) Little Kentucky River. Little River (Kentucky) Little Sandy River (Kentucky) Looney Creek (Poor Fork tributary) Lynn Camp Creek.
The Licking River is a partly navigable, 303-mile-long (488 km) [2] tributary of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky. The river and its tributaries drain much of the region of northeastern Kentucky between the watersheds of the Kentucky River to the west and the Big Sandy River to the east. The North Fork Licking River, in Pendleton County ...
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.
North Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. [2] It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville . [ 2 ] It is nearly 148 miles (238 km) long with an average slope of 3.2 feet per mile (0.61 m/km), [ 3 ] and an overall basin size (at Jackson) of 1,101 square miles (2,850 km 2 ) [ 4 ]
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. It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Campton.