| Lost Creek | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lost Creek headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°19′16″N 83°10′55″W / 37.32101°N 83.18195°W |
| 2nd source | Ten Mile Creek headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°22′09″N 83°17′23″W / 37.36906°N 83.28972°W |
| 3rd source | Fifteen Mile Creek headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°20′24″N 83°14′17″W / 37.33999°N 83.23809°W |
| 4th source | Sixteen Mile Creek headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°19′28″N 83°12′07″W / 37.32451°N 83.20198°W |
| Mouth | Troublesome Creek |
• coordinates | 37°28′41″N 83°19′22″W / 37.47796°N 83.32269°W |
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]
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]
- ^ a b c Rennick 2000a, p. 6.
- ^ Hodge 1918, p. 14.
- ^ Hodge 1918, p. 164.
- ^ a b Rennick 2000b, p. 25.
- ^ KTC 2012.