The Barren River[1] is a 135-mile-long (217 km) river in Southcentral Kentucky, United States, and a tributary of the Green River.[2] The watershed of the Green River is the largest of the twelve major river watersheds in Kentucky.[3] The Barren River rises near the Tennessee border in Monroe County and flows into the Green in northeast Warren County. The drainage basin consists of Southcentral Kentucky and north-central Tennessee.
Historically, this waterway was depicted as the “Big Barren River”[1] in early surveys and documents[4][5] to distinguish it from the Little Barren River.[6]
At Greencastle, Kentucky,[7][8] the river has a mean annual discharge of 2,501 cubic feet per second.[9]
^Arterburn, Charles R. A Forgotten Town Remembered: Pikesville of Monroe County, Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: C.R. Arterburn, 2014. (pp.102-109)
^Jillson, Willard Rouse and Kentucky. The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort Kentucky 1782-1924. Standard Printing Company Incorporated, 1925.
