[2] It is 16.5 miles (26.6 km) long with its confluence with Goose just north of Manchester,[2] at an altitude of 795 feet (242 m).

[1] Sory postoffice was established on 1926-07-91 by postmaster Margaret Bowling Garrison, named after a friend of her husband J.B. from World War One.

[4] Sidell post office was 2.5 miles (4.0 km) upstream on Rader, where James M. Baker had a mine.

[6] One 1914 (Selliers') geological survey map assigns it to a small stream 1 mile upstream of Philpot/Urban Branch; other 20th century maps place it west of that branch between Seeley postoffice, the postoffices of Byron and Marydell, and Laurel County.

[6] Irvine Hoskins had a mine on Rock Gap Branch 0.25 miles (0.40 km) upstream at an altitude of 1,075 feet (328 m).

[8] It was subsequently moved twice: in 1912 to Goslin Branch by Philip Fields, and sometime before its closure in 1975 one mile down Grays Fork.