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Poor Fork (Cumberland River tributary)

The Poor Fork is a 45-mile (72 km)[3] tributary of the Cumberland River in Letcher and Harlan Counties, southeast Kentucky, in the United States.[1] The river flows from its source at Flat Gap in Letcher County, on the Kentucky–Virginia border, generally southwest to where it meets Martin's Fork in Baxter to form the Cumberland river.

Poor Fork
The Poor Fork near the community of Eolia in Letcher County
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • elevation
1,148 ft (350 m)[1]
Length45 mi (72 km)
Discharge 
 • locationCumberland, Kentucky
 • average147 cu/ft. per sec.[2]
Basin features
ProgressionCumberlandOhioMississippi
Tributaries 
 • rightLooney Creek

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Poor Fork (Cumberland River tributary)
  2. ^ "USGS Surface Water data for Kentucky: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
  3. ^ . United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2013-11-09.

36°51′35″N 83°19′33″W / 36.85981°N 83.32574°W / 36.85981; -83.32574


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