Stinking Creek (Campbell County, Tennessee)

{{Short description|Stream in Tennessee}}

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Stinking Creek is a stream in Campbell County, Tennessee, in the United States.{{GNIS|1303846}}

Stinking Creek, a sulphur spring, was named on account of its naturally occurring unpleasant odor.{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Larry L.|title=Tennessee Place-names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zOzPQYkkbaAC&pg=PA199|year=2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-21478-5|page=199}}

Another theory for the creek's name dates to 1779–1780. This was attributed to many animal deaths during an unusually cold winter and the resulting carrion stench the following spring.

[https://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/screek.html STINKING CREEK TRACES ITS NAME TO BITTERLY COLD WINTER OF 1779-80 WHEN ANIMALS PERISHED]