Pup Creek is a stream in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Ohio River.

Pup Creek was so named from an incident when pioneers drowned puppies in this stream.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pup Creek
  2. ↑ History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. Inter-state Publishing Company. 1883. p. 599.

37°50′03″N 87°02′38″W / 37.8342164°N 87.0438848°W / 37.8342164; -87.0438848



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