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The Nolin River is a 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed June 13, 2011〕 tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky in the United States.〔(Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry )〕 Via the Green and Ohio rivers, it is a part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. According to legend, Nolin River was so named when a group of hunters camped on a knoll near the river when a member of the hunting party, Benjamin Lynn, became lost. The story continues the rest of the party returned to the knoll where someone said "Here is the knoll, but no Lynn!" The lost hunter was later found alive and well camped out at nearby Lynn Camp Creek. The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Nolin River" as the stream's name in 1933. The Nolin River is formed in western LaRue County by the confluence of its short North and South Forks, both of which flow for their entire lengths in LaRue County; the North Fork flows past Hodgenville. The Nolin then flows generally southwestwardly through or along the boundaries of Hardin, Grayson, Hart and Edmonson counties. It joins the Green River in the western part of Mammoth Cave National Park, about northeast of Brownsville.〔DeLorme (2005). ''Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-340-0〕 In Edmonson County, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form Nolin River Lake. ==See also== *List of Kentucky rivers 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「Nolin River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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