Stinking Creek is a stream in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States.[1]

Stinking Creek was so named because early buffalo hunters were known to leave corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stinking Creek (Kentucky)
  2. ↑ Kleber, John E. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 856. ISBN 0-8131-2883-8.

36°50′15″N 83°48′58″W / 36.837587°N 83.816033°W / 36.837587; -83.816033



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