Place:Wallins Creek, Harlan, Kentucky, United States

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NameWallins Creek
Alt namesWallinssource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21029133
TypeCity
Coordinates36.828°N 83.414°W
Located inHarlan, Kentucky, United States
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Wallins Creek is a city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 257 at the 2000 census and was estimated at 235 in 2007.

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Wallins Creek began life as a coalmining town in 1925; the mine was owned by the Wallins Creek Coal Corporation. The Wallins Creek Baptist church was established in 1855 with 30 members.

Wallins Creek is said to be haunted by an old coal miner who died in an explosion and who walks alongside the roadside to his former home.

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