CUMBERLAND ONLY KY. RIVER THAT FLOWS TWO WAYS.(Kentucky Life: History)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) | March 7, 2005 | Copyright

The extreme headwaters of the Cumberland River are in the southern part of Letcher County, near the small town of Oven Ford. Seven hundred miles downstream the Cumberland empties into the Ohio River in Livingston County near Smithland.

The drainage basin covers 7,000 square miles of Kentucky and 11,000 square miles in Tennessee. The Cumberland is the only river in Kentucky that flows south, then changes course and flows north. Two of Kentucky's largest lakes are impoundments of the Cumberland: Lake Barkley and in western Kentucky and Lake Cumberland in southern ...

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