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 the Appalachian Mountains, on the Kentucky–Virginia border, generally southwest to its confluence about a mile (1.6 km) north of Harlan.
| Poor Fork | |
|---|---|
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• elevation | 1,148 ft (350 m)[1] |
| Length | 45 mi (72 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Cumberland, Kentucky |
| • average | 147 cu/ft. per sec.[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Cumberland–Ohio–Mississippi |
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Poor Fork (Cumberland River tributary)
- "USGS Surface Water data for Kentucky: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
- "USGS National Atlas Streamer". United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
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