Dog Slaughter Falls
Dog Slaughter Falls is a 15 feet to 20 feet tall waterfall at the confluence of the Cumberland River and Dog Slaughter Creek, in the London Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Whitley County, Kentucky.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cumberland Falls and Eagle Falls.
Cumberland Falls
Waterfall
Photo: ChrisKuehl, Public domain.
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. Cumberland Falls is situated 2½ miles southwest of Dog Slaughter 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. Eagle Falls is situated 2 miles southwest of Dog Slaughter Falls.
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. Honeybee is situated 3½ miles west of Dog Slaughter Falls.
Sawyer
Hamlet
Sawyer is an unincorporated community within McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Sawyer is situated 3½ miles northwest of Dog Slaughter Falls.
Dog Slaughter Falls
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: American waterfall
- Category: body of water
- Location: Whitley, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.85841° or 36° 51′ 30″ northLongitude
-84.31184° or 84° 18′ 43″ westElevation
860 feet (262 metres)Height
20 feet (6.1 metres)Width
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
868QVM5Q+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 11834996358OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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