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  Jillson 
  — 
  Migration 
  of 
  Headwaters 
  

  

  Art. 
  III. 
  — 
  The 
  Migration 
  of 
  the 
  Headwaters 
  Divide 
  of 
  

   Right 
  Middle 
  Creek, 
  Floyd 
  County, 
  Kentucky; 
  by 
  

   Willaed 
  Rouse 
  Jillson. 
  

  

  The 
  headwaters 
  divides 
  of 
  many 
  streams 
  rising 
  in 
  the 
  

   foothills 
  of 
  the 
  Appalachian 
  Mountains 
  have 
  experienced 
  

   horizontal 
  shifting 
  or 
  migration. 
  That 
  such 
  movements 
  

   have 
  taken 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Cumberland 
  

   Plateau 
  is 
  apparent 
  upon 
  inspecting 
  the 
  Prestonsburg, 
  

   Paintsville, 
  and 
  Salyersville, 
  Kentucky, 
  topographic 
  

   sheets, 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  of 
  which 
  have 
  recently 
  been 
  issued 
  

   by 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  Middle 
  Creek 
  

   in 
  Floyd 
  County, 
  Kentucky, 
  presents 
  uncommonly 
  plain 
  

  

  SKETCH 
  MAP 
  

  

  SHOWING 
  THE 
  NORTHWESTWARD 
  

  

  MIGRATION 
  OF 
  

   TtiE 
  HEADWATERS' 
  DIVIDE 
  Of 
  

   RIGHT 
  MIDDLE 
  CREEK 
  

  

  FL0TD-/VUS0FFIN 
  COUNTIES, 
  KT. 
  

  

  LSON, 
  GEOL. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1. 
  Map 
  of 
  Eight 
  Middle 
  Creek, 
  showing 
  watershed. 
  

   Prestonsburg 
  sheet, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey.) 
  

  

  (Eeduced 
  from 
  

  

  evidence 
  of 
  migration, 
  and 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  

   drainage 
  basin 
  of 
  this 
  stream 
  are 
  considered 
  worthy 
  of 
  

   record. 
  

  

  As 
  shown 
  on 
  the 
  accompanying 
  map 
  Middle 
  Creek 
  is 
  a 
  

   large 
  easterly 
  flowing 
  tributary 
  of 
  the 
  Levisa 
  Fork 
  of 
  the 
  

   Big 
  Sandy 
  River, 
  which 
  it 
  joins 
  at 
  the 
  town 
  site 
  of 
  Pres- 
  

   tonsburg. 
  About 
  3 
  miles 
  from 
  its 
  mouth 
  Middle 
  Creek 
  

   branches 
  and 
  the 
  Right 
  Fork 
  of 
  Middle 
  Creek, 
  or, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  

   locally 
  called, 
  Right 
  Middle 
  Creek, 
  extends 
  westward 
  

   about 
  14 
  miles. 
  

  

  