The name "Lost" is associated anecdotally with people getting lost or losing things, from hunters and early travellers getting lost having strayed too far from the route of the Creek, through a family losing all of their possessions on a part of the Creek that was frozen, to famous local people such as Ned O'Grady, Colby Haddix, and Barney Russell becoming lost there.[4]
The Ten, Fifteen, and Sixteen Mile Creeks are straightforwardly named for their distances upstream from Lost Creek mouth, a common naming convention in Kentucky.[10]
in Perry Countyedit
Lost Creek has had two post offices in the parts of its watershed that are in Perry County.[1]
Dice post office was authorized by William Campbell on 1903-05-09, but not established as the authorization was rescinded two months later.[1] It was located near to the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek.[1] The local folklore is that it was named for someone named Dice, Dicie, or Dicey; although one recorded hypothesis that it was named for a Dicie Campbell, born in 1903, is clearly erroneous.[1]
It was actually established on 1908-12-26 by postmaster Matt Combs, but only lasted until the middle of May 1911.[1] It was established on 1923-02-15 by postmaster Andrew Jones, by which point there was a small village at Sixteen Mile Creek, but closed again in November 1936.[1] It was established for a third time on 1942-08-13.[1] It still exists today.[1]
The Engle post office was established on 1959-03-07 by James B. Engle with his wife Frankie as the postmaster.[11] Engle had originally wanted the name Oliver but that was already in use elsewhere in Breathitt.[11] It started out on the Rock House Fork of Ten Mile Creek, moving 1 mile (1.6 km) along the creek to the Hollybush Branch of Ten Mile in 1938.[11] It closed in 1980.[11]
in Breathitt Countyedit
Generaledit
The Ned post office was established on 1886-02-26 by postmaster Jeremiah Combs.[4] Popular folklore is that it was named for Edward P. "Ned" Turner, his son-in-law who married Mary Elizabeth Combs, but at the time Edward was only 12, unmarried (the marriage being in 1891) and still living with his family on Middle Fork.[4] It is more probable that Combs named it for his neighbour, Edward "Ned" Sizemore.[4]
The post office was at Cockerell's Fork, and a village including two mills and three general stores (including Combs's) grew up in the 1890s.[4] The post office was taken over by Jeremiah's son John W. Combs who moved it 0.5 miles (0.80 km) upstream to the mouth of minor tributary Perkin's Branch.[18] When it closed in 1984 it had been re-located back to Cockrell's Fork.[18]
The Leatherwood post office was established on 1913-06-18 by postmaster Lewis Watts.[18] It closed in April 1919, to be re-established sometime in the winter of 1934–1935.[18] It was renamed Watts after the Watts family in 1949, although its environs remained known as Leatherwood.[18] It remained open as a rural branch office from 1965 to 1973.[18]
In 1910 L. H. Noble had a mine and a house at Leatherwood Branch, owning the land there.[7] There was a Noble farm on a minor fork of Cockerell's Fork.[19] (See Rowdy and Stacy for the adjacent Noble Fork of Troublesome Creek.) Green Noble had a mine at Low Gap Branch.[9]
John Collingsworth had a mine on Collins Branch.[20] Mahlon Jones had a mine in 1918 on Will Branch,[15] and owned land on Low Gap Branch.[14]
Lost Creek post office in Troublesome villageedit
The Lost Creek post office was established on 1848-10-11 by postmaster Joseph B. Haddix.[4] The village that grew around it in the 1880s was known as Troublesome, and included general stores (Day's and Sallee's) and a steam-powered saw and grist mill owned by a later postmaster named F. M. Day.[4] The post office still exists today,[4] and has ZIP code 41348.[21]
Hodge, James Michael (1910). "Report on the Coals of the Three Forks of the Kentucky River". Reports of the Kentucky Geological Survey (11). Lexington, Kentucky. (Report on the Coals of the Three Forks of the Kentucky River at the Internet Archive)
Hodge, James Michael (1918). Coals of the North Fork of Kentucky River in Perry and Portions of Breathitt and Knott Counties. Reports of the Kentucky Geological Survey 4th series 1912–1918. Vol. 3. Frankfort, Kentucky: The State Journal Company. (Coals of the North Fork of Kentucky River in Perry and Portions of Breathitt and Knott Counties at the Internet Archive)
Rennick, Robert M. (2000a). Perry County — Post Offices. County Histories of Kentucky. Vol. 273. Morehead State University.
Rennick, Robert M. (2000b). Breathitt County — Post Offices. County Histories of Kentucky. Vol. 159. Morehead State University.
Rennick, Robert M. (1990). Kentucky "Number" Place Names. Rennick Kentucky Place Names. Vol. 155. Morehead State University.
United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS – Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved 2012-02-15.
Robertson, Campbell (October 29, 2022). "Months After the Floods, Eastern Kentucky Families Take Measure of What Was Lost". The New York Times.
Aoyama, Andrew (April 2023). "Appalachia's Quiet Time Bombs". The Atlantic.
Sandor, Julia (August 9, 2022). "Lost Creek residents hopeful for more help after President Biden's visit". WYMT Mountain News. from the original on August 10, 2022.
Further readingedit
Rennick, Robert M.; United States Geological Survey (January 1961). "Haddix". Robert M. Rennick Topographical Map Collection (296). Morehead State University.
"A Mind's Eye View of Ganderbill Holler". Now and Then. Vol. 18, no. 1. East Tennessee State University Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. 2001. p. 14.
January 01, 1970
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Lost Creek is a creek that is mainly in Breathitt County Kentucky in the United States 1 It a tributary of the Troublesome Creek tributary of the North Fork Kentucky River that it joins over the county line in Perry County slightly more than 1 mile 1 6 km upstream of the mouth of Troublesome at an altitude of 810 feet 250 m 1 2 3 4 It is 10 miles 16 km long 1 The junction of Kentucky Route 476 with Kentucky Route 15 about 6 miles 9 7 km south southeast of Jackson is nearby 5 Lost CreekPhysical characteristicsSourceLost Creek headwaters coordinates37 19 16 N 83 10 55 W 37 32101 N 83 18195 W 37 32101 83 18195 Lost Creek headwaters 2nd sourceTen Mile Creek headwaters coordinates37 22 09 N 83 17 23 W 37 36906 N 83 28972 W 37 36906 83 28972 Ten Mile Creek headwaters 3rd sourceFifteen Mile Creek headwaters coordinates37 20 24 N 83 14 17 W 37 33999 N 83 23809 W 37 33999 83 23809 Fifteen Mile Creek headwaters 4th sourceSixteen Mile Creek headwaters coordinates37 19 28 N 83 12 07 W 37 32451 N 83 20198 W 37 32451 83 20198 Sixteen Mile Creek headwaters MouthTroublesome Creek coordinates37 28 41 N 83 19 22 W 37 47796 N 83 32269 W 37 47796 83 32269 mouth of Lost Creek The name Lost is associated anecdotally with people getting lost or losing things from hunters and early travellers getting lost having strayed too far from the route of the Creek through a family losing all of their possessions on a part of the Creek that was frozen to famous local people such as Ned O Grady Colby Haddix and Barney Russell becoming lost there 4 Contents 1 Tributaries and other locations 1 1 in Perry County 1 2 in Breathitt County 1 2 1 General 1 2 2 Lost Creek post office in Troublesome village 2 Climate 3 See also 4 Cross reference 5 Sources 6 Further readingTributaries and other locations editIts major tributaries are Mill Branch 2 miles 3 2 km upstream 6 mouth at 37 27 40 N 83 19 00 W 37 46124 N 83 31666 W 37 46124 83 31666 mouth of Mill Branch headwaters at 37 26 10 N 83 19 51 W 37 43609 N 83 33090 W 37 43609 83 33090 Mill Branch headwaters Leatherwood Branch 7 mouth at 37 26 34 N 83 18 44 W 37 44291 N 83 31236 W 37 44291 83 31236 mouth of Leatherwood Branch headwaters at 37 23 50 N 83 17 45 W 37 39733 N 83 29595 W 37 39733 83 29595 Leatherwood Branch headwaters Cockerell s Fork also Cockrell Fork 8 75 miles 14 08 km upstream 4 8 mouth at 37 24 44 N 83 16 19 W 37 41215 N 83 27203 W 37 41215 83 27203 mouth of Cockerell s Fork headwaters at 37 23 02 N 83 13 20 W 37 38397 N 83 22212 W 37 38397 83 22212 Cockerell s Fork headwaters Ten Mile Creek 10 miles 16 km upstream at an altitude of 815 feet 248 m 9 10 mouth at 37 23 56 N 83 16 10 W 37 39886 N 83 26948 W 37 39886 83 26948 mouth of Ten Mile Creek Rock House Fork 11 mouth at 37 23 17 N 83 16 23 W 37 38794 N 83 27308 W 37 38794 83 27308 mouth of Rock House Fork headwaters at 37 21 35 N 83 15 32 W 37 35975 N 83 25895 W 37 35975 83 25895 Rock House Fork headwaters Hollybush Branch 11 mouth at 37 23 08 N 83 16 10 W 37 38551 N 83 26955 W 37 38551 83 26955 mouth of Hollybush Branch headwaters at 37 22 02 N 83 16 39 W 37 36729 N 83 27758 W 37 36729 83 27758 forks at Hollybush Branch headwaters Collins Branch 11 25 miles 18 11 km upstream 9 Low Gap Branch 12 25 miles 19 71 km upstream at an altitude of 890 feet 270 m 9 mouth at 37 22 49 N 83 14 25 W 37 38014 N 83 24030 W 37 38014 83 24030 mouth of Low Gap Branch headwaters at 37 22 33 N 83 14 52 W 37 37593 N 83 24769 W 37 37593 83 24769 Low Gap Branch headwaters Fifteen Mile Creek 15 miles 24 km upstream at an altitude of 910 feet 280 m 12 10 mouth at 37 21 56 N 83 14 14 W 37 36564 N 83 23735 W 37 36564 83 23735 mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek Sixteen Mile Creek 16 miles 26 km upstream at an altitude of 925 feet 282 m 13 10 mouth at 37 21 47 N 83 13 43 W 37 36316 N 83 22859 W 37 36316 83 22859 mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek Strong Branch 1 25 miles 2 01 km upstream at an altitude of 995 feet 303 m 13 mouth at 37 20 56 N 83 13 20 W 37 34888 N 83 22213 W 37 34888 83 22213 mouth of Strong Branch headwaters at 37 20 22 N 83 13 51 W 37 33950 N 83 23094 W 37 33950 83 23094 Strong Branch headwaters Hiram Branch 2 miles 3 2 km upstream at an altitude of 1 060 feet 320 m 13 mouth at 37 20 03 N 83 12 47 W 37 33415 N 83 21297 W 37 33415 83 21297 mouth of Hiram Branch headwaters at 37 20 15 N 83 12 19 W 37 33749 N 83 20528 W 37 33749 83 20528 Hiram Branch headwaters Low Gap Branch 16 5 miles 26 6 km upstream at an altitude of 945 feet 288 m 14 mouth at 37 21 56 N 83 13 15 W 37 36559 N 83 22084 W 37 36559 83 22084 mouth of Low Gap Branch headwaters at 37 22 14 N 83 12 44 W 37 37053 N 83 21227 W 37 37053 83 21227 Low Gap Branch headwaters Will Branch 17 25 miles 27 76 km upstream 15 Camp Branch 17 75 miles 28 57 km upstream 15 Bowman Branch 18 miles 29 km upstream 15 Rock Fork 18 5 miles 29 8 km upstream at an altitude of 1 040 feet 320 m 16 mouth at 37 21 26 N 83 11 27 W 37 35709 N 83 19095 W 37 35709 83 19095 mouth of Rock Fork headwaters at 37 21 27 N 83 11 01 W 37 35751 N 83 18348 W 37 35751 83 18348 Rock Fork headwaters Laurel Fork 19 5 miles 31 4 km upstream at an altitude of 1 110 feet 340 m 17 mouth at 37 20 41 N 83 11 22 W 37 34482 N 83 18949 W 37 34482 83 18949 mouth of Laurel Fork headwaters at 37 19 17 N 83 11 18 W 37 32133 N 83 18834 W 37 32133 83 18834 Laurel Fork headwaters The Ten Fifteen and Sixteen Mile Creeks are straightforwardly named for their distances upstream from Lost Creek mouth a common naming convention in Kentucky 10 in Perry County edit Lost Creek has had two post offices in the parts of its watershed that are in Perry County 1 Dice post office was authorized by William Campbell on 1903 05 09 but not established as the authorization was rescinded two months later 1 It was located near to the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek 1 The local folklore is that it was named for someone named Dice Dicie or Dicey although one recorded hypothesis that it was named for a Dicie Campbell born in 1903 is clearly erroneous 1 It was actually established on 1908 12 26 by postmaster Matt Combs but only lasted until the middle of May 1911 1 It was established on 1923 02 15 by postmaster Andrew Jones by which point there was a small village at Sixteen Mile Creek but closed again in November 1936 1 It was established for a third time on 1942 08 13 1 It still exists today 1 The Engle post office was established on 1959 03 07 by James B Engle with his wife Frankie as the postmaster 11 Engle had originally wanted the name Oliver but that was already in use elsewhere in Breathitt 11 It started out on the Rock House Fork of Ten Mile Creek moving 1 mile 1 6 km along the creek to the Hollybush Branch of Ten Mile in 1938 11 It closed in 1980 11 in Breathitt County edit General edit The Ned post office was established on 1886 02 26 by postmaster Jeremiah Combs 4 Popular folklore is that it was named for Edward P Ned Turner his son in law who married Mary Elizabeth Combs but at the time Edward was only 12 unmarried the marriage being in 1891 and still living with his family on Middle Fork 4 It is more probable that Combs named it for his neighbour Edward Ned Sizemore 4 The post office was at Cockerell s Fork and a village including two mills and three general stores including Combs s grew up in the 1890s 4 The post office was taken over by Jeremiah s son John W Combs who moved it 0 5 miles 0 80 km upstream to the mouth of minor tributary Perkin s Branch 18 When it closed in 1984 it had been re located back to Cockrell s Fork 18 The Leatherwood post office was established on 1913 06 18 by postmaster Lewis Watts 18 It closed in April 1919 to be re established sometime in the winter of 1934 1935 18 It was renamed Watts after the Watts family in 1949 although its environs remained known as Leatherwood 18 It remained open as a rural branch office from 1965 to 1973 18 In 1910 L H Noble had a mine and a house at Leatherwood Branch owning the land there 7 There was a Noble farm on a minor fork of Cockerell s Fork 19 See Rowdy and Stacy for the adjacent Noble Fork of Troublesome Creek Green Noble had a mine at Low Gap Branch 9 John Collingsworth had a mine on Collins Branch 20 Mahlon Jones had a mine in 1918 on Will Branch 15 and owned land on Low Gap Branch 14 Lost Creek post office in Troublesome village edit The Lost Creek post office was established on 1848 10 11 by postmaster Joseph B Haddix 4 The village that grew around it in the 1880s was known as Troublesome and included general stores Day s and Sallee s and a steam powered saw and grist mill owned by a later postmaster named F M Day 4 The post office still exists today 4 and has ZIP code 41348 21 Climate editMain article Troublesome Creek North Fork Kentucky River Climate Many homes along the Creek were destroyed in a flash flood that hit Troublesome Creek and its tributaries in July 2022 22 23 24 See also editList of rivers of KentuckyCross reference edit a b c d e f g h i j k Rennick 2000a p 6 Hodge 1918 p 14 Hodge 1918 p 164 a b c d e f g h i j Rennick 2000b p 25 KTC 2012 Hodge 1910 p 29 a b Hodge 1910 p 32 Hodge 1910 p 33 a b c d Hodge 1918 p 165 a b c d Rennick 1990 p 6 a b c d e f Rennick 2000a p 7 Hodge 1918 p 166 a b c Hodge 1918 p 168 a b Hodge 1918 p 170 a b c d Hodge 1918 p 171 Hodge 1918 p 172 Hodge 1918 p 173 a b c d e f Rennick 2000b p 26 Hodge 1910 p 34 Hodge 1910 p 35 USPS Robertson 2022 Aoyama 2023 Sandor 2022 Sources editHodge James Michael 1910 Report on the Coals of the Three Forks of the Kentucky River Reports of the Kentucky Geological Survey 11 Lexington Kentucky Report on the Coals of the Three Forks of the Kentucky River at the Internet Archive Hodge James Michael 1918 Coals of the North Fork of Kentucky River in Perry and Portions of Breathitt and Knott Counties Reports of the Kentucky Geological Survey 4th series 1912 1918 Vol 3 Frankfort Kentucky The State Journal Company Coals of the North Fork of Kentucky River in Perry and Portions of Breathitt and Knott Counties at the Internet Archive Rennick Robert M 2000a Perry County Post Offices County Histories of Kentucky Vol 273 Morehead State University Rennick Robert M 2000b Breathitt County Post Offices County Histories of Kentucky Vol 159 Morehead State University Rennick Robert M 1990 Kentucky Number Place Names Rennick Kentucky Place Names Vol 155 Morehead State University State Primary Road System Breathitt County PDF Map Kentucky Transportation Cabinet 2012 Retrieved June 9 2013 United States Postal Service 2012 USPS Look Up a ZIP Code Retrieved 2012 02 15 Robertson Campbell October 29 2022 Months After the Floods Eastern Kentucky Families Take Measure of What Was Lost The New York Times Aoyama Andrew April 2023 Appalachia s Quiet Time Bombs The Atlantic Sandor Julia August 9 2022 Lost Creek residents hopeful for more help after President Biden s visit WYMT Mountain News Archived from the original on August 10 2022 Further reading editRennick Robert M United States Geological Survey January 1961 Haddix Robert M Rennick Topographical Map Collection 296 Morehead State University A Mind s Eye View of Ganderbill Holler Now and Then Vol 18 no 1 East Tennessee State University Center for Appalachian Studies and Services 2001 p 14 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lost Creek Kentucky amp oldid 1217181743, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
