Cumberland Falls
Cumberland Falls, sometimes called the Little Niagara, the Niagara of the South, or the Great Falls, is a waterfall on the Cumberland River in southeastern Kentucky.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ChrisKuehl, Public domain.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in the U.S. state of Kentucky
- Also known as: “Little Niagara” and “The Great Falls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eagle Falls.
Eagle Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Kysailor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eagle Falls is located in Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Water from Eagle Creek descends 44 feet before landing on the rocks below on the Cumberland River shoreline.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Honeybee and Sawyer.
Honeybee
Hamlet
Honeybee is an unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office closed in 1983. A post office was established in the community in 1905.
Sawyer
Hamlet
Sawyer is an unincorporated community within McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Sawyer is situated 4½ miles north of Cumberland Falls.
Cumberland Falls
- Category: body of water
- Location: McCreary, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.83871° or 36° 50′ 19″ northLongitude
-84.34506° or 84° 20′ 42″ westElevation
814 feet (248 metres)Open location code
868QRMQ3+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 4480645875OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Cumberland Falls” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “坎伯兰瀑布”
- Chinese: “坎伯蘭瀑布”
- Dutch: “Cumberland Falls”
- French: “Cumberland Falls”
- German: “Cumberland Falls”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار کومبرلند”
- Mazanderani: “کومبرلند ئوشار”
- Persian: “آبشار کامبرلند”
- Persian: “آبشار کومبرلند”
- Persian: “ابشار کامبرلند”
- Persian: “ابشار کومبرلند”
- Spanish: “Cataratas Cumberland”
- Tajik: “Кумберланд”
- Tajik: “Обшори Кумберланд”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Кумберланд”
- Urdu: “کمبرلینڈ آبشار”
- Vietnamese: “thác Cumberland”
- Western Panjabi: “کمبرلینڈ آبشار”
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Highlights include Visitor’s Center and Six Gun City.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cumberland Falls”. Photo: ChrisKuehl, Public domain.