Tygarts Creek
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Tygarts Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in Carter and Greenup counties of northeastern Kentucky in the United States.[1] It is Script error: No such module "convert". long[2] and drains an area of Script error: No such module "convert"..[3] Via the Ohio, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Tygarts Creek is named for early Kentucky explorer Michael Tygart, who eventually drowned in the creek, somewhere near the mouth.
Tygarts Creek is formed in southwestern Carter County by the confluence of minor tributaries, Upper Tygart Branch and Flat Fork. It is joined a few miles down stream by the larger tributary known as Soldier Fork. Tygarts Creek flows generally north-northeastwardly past Olive Hill and Carter Caves State Park into Greenup County, where it flows into the Ohio River at the city of South Shore.[4]
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Script error: No such module "If empty".
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 26, 2011
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data covering Tygarts Creek watershed, 10-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes 0509010303 and 0509010304. The National Map, retrieved 2015-10-27
- ↑ DeLorme (2005). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN
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