Red Bird River
Red Bird River near the county line of Clay and Bell Counties
The Red Bird River is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km)[1] tributary of the South Fork Kentucky River, located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in extreme southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Red Bird was the name of a Native American who was murdered near the river.[2]
Course
It rises as Red Bird Creek in northeastern Bell County, then becomes the Red Bird River at the juncture of the Phillips Fork just south of Queendale in Clay County. Continuing north, it forms the boundary between Clay and Leslie counties, eventually coming to a confluence with Goose Creek at Oneida to form the South Fork of the Kentucky River.
See also
- List of Kentucky rivers
- Red Bird River Petroglyphs
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 13, 2011
- ↑ Collins, Lewis (1877). History of Kentucky. p. 141.