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Stinking Creek (Campbell County, Tennessee)

Coordinates: 36°29′45″N 84°06′33″W / 36.4959°N 84.1092°W / 36.4959; -84.1092
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Stinking Creek is a stream in Campbell County, Tennessee, in the United States.[1]

Stinking Creek, a sulphur spring, was named on account of its naturally occurring unpleasant odor.[2]

Another theory for the creek's name dates to 1779–1780. This was attributed to many animal deaths during an unusually cold winter and the resulting carrion stench the following spring. [3]

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References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stinking Creek (Campbell County, Tennessee)
  2. ^ Miller, Larry L. (2001). Tennessee Place-names. Indiana University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-253-21478-5.
  3. ^ STINKING CREEK TRACES ITS NAME TO BITTERLY COLD WINTER OF 1779-80 WHEN ANIMALS PERISHED

36°29′45″N 84°06′33″W / 36.4959°N 84.1092°W / 36.4959; -84.1092