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Poor Fork
Physical characteristics
River mouth 1,148 ft (350 m)
Length 45 mi (72 km)
Basin features
Progression CumberlandOhioMississippi

The Poor Fork is a 45-mile (72 km) tributary of the Cumberland River in Letcher and Harlan Counties, southeast Kentucky, in the United States. The river flows from its source at Flat Gap in the Appalachian Mountains, on the Kentucky–Virginia border, generally southwest to its confluence about a mile (1.6 km) north of Harlan.

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