Stinking Creek
Stinking Creek is a stream in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States. Stinking Creek was so named because early buffalo hunters were known to leave corpses of animals they killed lying in and around the stream.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Himyar and Artemus.
Himyar
Hamlet
Himyar is an unincorporated community and coal town in Knox County, Kentucky, United States. A post office was established in the community in 1906. The town's namesake is the racehorse Himyar, who placed second in the 1878 Kentucky Derby.
Artemus
Hamlet
Artemus is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Knox County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2010 United States census the population was 590.
Bimble
Village
Bimble is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky, United States. The name Bimble was formed by compounding the names of two local farm animals, Bim and Bill. The village was previously known as Yeager until 1966. Bimble is situated 2½ miles north of Stinking Creek.
Stinking Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Knox County, Kentucky, United States
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Knox, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Stinking Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Stinking Creek”
- Cebuano: “Stinking Creek”
- Chinese: “迪福克奧夫斯廷金 (肯塔基州)”
- Chinese: “迪福克奧夫斯廷金”
- Venetian: “Stinking”
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