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.- Stream
- Description: river in Knox County, Kentucky, United States
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.
Bimble
Village
Bimble is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky, United States.
2½ miles north of Stinking Creek
Stinking Creek
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Latitude
36.83759° or 36° 50′ 15″ north
Longitude
-83.81603° or 83° 48′ 58″ west
Open location code
868RR5QM+2H
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Stinking Creek” goes by many names.
Stinking CreekCatalan
Stinking CreekCebuano
迪福克奧夫斯廷金Chinese
迪福克奧夫斯廷金 (肯塔基州)Chinese
StinkingVenetian
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