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Elkhorn Creek is an 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed June 13, 2011〕 stream running through several counties in central Kentucky in the United States. The stream drains an area of .〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data covering Elkhorn Creek watershed, 10-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes 0510020508 and 0510020509. (The National Map ), retrieved 2015-10-27〕 It derives its name from the shape, as seen on a map, of its main stem with its two primary forks. North Elkhorn Creek starts just east of Lexington and flows 〔 through Fayette and Scott counties, and into Franklin County, where it meets the South Elkhorn at the Forks of the Elkhorn east of Frankfort. South Elkhorn Creek begins in Fayette County, and flows 〔 through Woodford, Scott and Franklin counties to reach the Forks of the Elkhorn. South Elkhorn Creek defines the boundary between Scott and Woodford counties. Beyond the Forks of the Elkhorn, the confluent waters flow north and empty into the Kentucky River north of Frankfort. Species of fish in the Elkhorn include catfish, rock bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, carp, crappie, and bluegill. Elkhorn Creek is mentioned in the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman: A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth, A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianan or Georgian... ==See also== *List of rivers of Kentucky 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elkhorn Creek (Kentucky)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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