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Stinking Lick Creek

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Coordinates: 37°31′13″N 80°48′52″W / 37.52028°N 80.81444°W / 37.52028; -80.81444
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Stinking Lick Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia.[1]

Stinking Lick Creek was so named from an incident when the rotting corpse of an animal gave off a foul odor.[2]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stinking Lick Creek
  2. ^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 603.

37°31′13″N 80°48′52″W / 37.52028°N 80.81444°W / 37.52028; -80.81444


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