Looney Creek (Poor Fork tributary)

Looney Creek is a stream in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.

The creek flows from its source at Black Mountain on the Kentucky-Virginia border, through the cities of Benham and Lynch to its confluence with the Poor Fork in Cumberland, Kentucky.

[1] There are two ways the creek may have gotten its name.

According to Green Cornett, a settler from the area, there was a man named Looney who was chased up and down the creek by Native Americans, but according to Ina Mae Enzor, Looney cleared a corn patch near the creek.

This Harlan County, Kentucky state location article is a stub.