Noble Road & Massac Cr. - 1.9 Traditional Cache
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Noble Road & Massac Cr. - 1.9
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This is one in a series of caches that focus on the Massac Creek Watershed of McCracken County, Kentucky. You will be looking for a small, magnetic keyholder with a log only, so BYOP. Each container is located near one of the streams that compose a part of the Massac Creek watershed. The title of each cache indicates the nearest road crossing and the stream milage from its mouth. A small pull off is located at the cache site.
If you visited this site in spring 2011, the find would have been rated 5/5 since it would have been under 12 feet of water!!!
Noble Road crosses Massac Creek at 1.9 miles from its union with the Ohio River, near the community of High Point. Massac Creek is 15 miles long, beginning it journey just west of US-45. This part of Massac Creek often experience flooding from the back waters of the Ohio River as seen in Google Earth's streetview of the area. The Massac Creek Watershed comprises more than 75 square miles, eventually draining about 1/3rd of McCracken County into the Ohio River(see map below). A USGS Gaging Station located at the US-62/Blandville Road bridge. The creek is home to many species of fish, including gar and bluegill. Massac Creek was named and charted in the late 1830's and early 1840's when Paducah was founded. For many years it was used to power the Maxon Saw Mill.
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ugnraerqah xbby
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