Big Bone Lick State Park
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there.Photo: Mattguyver, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: geographical object
- Also known as: “Big Bone Lick State Historic Site”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Bone and Hamilton.
Big Bone
Hamlet
Big Bone is an unincorporated community in southern Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the west by the Ohio River, and Rabbit Hash, on the south by Big Bone Creek, which empties into the river at Big Bone Landing.
Hamilton
Hamlet
Hamilton is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is situated at Latitude 38.88333, Longitude -84.78167, in the southern part of the county on the Ohio River; it is about a mile north of the mouth of Big Bone Creek. Hamilton is situated 1½ miles west of Big Bone Lick State Park.
Beaverlick
Hamlet
Beaverlick is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. Beaverlick is located along U.S. Route 42 and U.S. Route 127 4.5 miles west of Walton. Beaverlick is situated 3 miles east of Big Bone Lick State Park.
Big Bone Lick State Park
- Categories: Kentucky state park, heritage site, recreation area, and historic site
- Location: Boone, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.8826° or 38° 52′ 57″ northLongitude
-84.74989° or 84° 44′ 60″ westElevation
469 feet (143 metres)Operator
Kentucky Department of ParksNetwork
Kentucky State ParksOpen location code
86CQV7M2+22OpenStreetMap ID
way 286653759OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4284207Wikidata ID
Q662832
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Latin—“Big Bone Lick State Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Big Bone Lick State Park”
- French: “parc d’État Big Bone Lick”
- French: “Parc d’État Big Bone Lick”
- Latin: “Big Bone Lick Reservatio Civitatis”
- Latin: “Linctum Magnorum Ossium Vivarium Civicum”
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