| Lotts Creek | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Lotts_Creek,_Knott_County,_Kentucky.jpg) Lotts Creek | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Young's Fork headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°16′55″N 83°01′53″W / 37.28191°N 83.03141°W |
| 2nd source | Kelly/Big Fork headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°16′20″N 83°00′53″W / 37.27225°N 83.01484°W |
| 3rd source | Clear Fork headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°16′55″N 83°05′19″W / 37.28198°N 83.08853°W |
| 4th source | Grigsby Creek headwaters |
| • coordinates | 37°17′40″N 83°07′57″W / 37.29453°N 83.13238°W |
| Mouth | North Fork Kentucky River |
• location | North Fork tributaries at Hazard, Kentucky |
• coordinates | 37°16′57″N 83°11′32″W / 37.28260°N 83.19234°W |
• elevation | 820 feet (250 m)[2] |
| Width | |
| • minimum | 6 feet (1.8 m)[1] |
| • maximum | 25 feet (7.6 m)[1] |
Lotts Creek is a creek in Perry County and Knott County, Kentucky in the United States.[2][3][1] It is a tributary of the North Fork Kentucky River that joins it at Darfork 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream of Hazard at an altitude of 820 feet (250 m).[4][2] It is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long from its mouth to where it splits into the Young's (a.k.a. Young) and Kelly (a.k.a. Big) Forks.[4][5]
The most likely source of the name "Lotts" is a William Harrison Lott of Clark County, however there is contradictory evidence on various historical maps, including a spelling "Lots" that is used after 1850, where before 1850 it was regularly spelled "Lotts".[4] The "Lots" spelling, according to one story, comes from when landowner "Danger Nick" Combs fenced off his land into lots; but in 1939 the U.S. Board on Geographic Names settled on the "Lotts" spelling.[4]
- ^ a b c Maccracken 2017, p. 145.
- ^ a b c Hodge 1918, p. 175.
- ^ Rennick 2000d, p. 25.
- ^ a b c d Rennick 2000a, p. 17.
- ^ Hodge 1918, p. 183,185,187.