Looney Creek is a stream in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The creek flows from its source at Black Mountain on the Kentucky- Virginia border, through the cities of Benham and Lynch to its confluence with the Poor Fork in Cumberland, Kentucky. [1]
There are two ways the creek may have gotten its name. According to Green Cornett, a settler from the area, there was a man named Looney who was chased up and down the creek by Native Americans, but according to Ina Mae Enzor, Looney cleared a corn patch near the creek. [2]
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