Kentucky · Unknown Co.

West Fork Drakes Creek

 · 24 mi · Class 

Optimal: 100–300 CFS · USGS #03313700

18CFS

7.04 ft gauge height

Below Optimal

→Stable

Avg flow: 193 cfsHist. median: 0 cfsUSGS #03313700

Designated Water Trail · State

Study of the Kentucky border in Simpson County reveals a funny-looking half triangle just south of Franklin. A surveying party in the fall of 1780 used a marked beech tree along the West Fork of Drakes Creek as a point of reference, but wandered decidedly off course to the south. Dr. Thomas Walker, commissioned to draw the boundary between the far western sections of North Carolina and Virginia before the creation of Kentucky and Tennessee, discovered the error. The surveyors simply worked back north to the original line rather than correct the mistake. The survey team marked a blackjack oak a

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