CATFISH CREEK (COTTLE COUNTY) CATFISH CREEK (Cottle County).
Catfish Creek rises at the confluence of two of its three
tributaries, the East and West prongs, eighteen miles northeast
of Paducah in east central Cottle County (at 34°11' N, 100°05'
W) and runs four miles northeast to its mouth on the Pease
River, twenty miles northeast of Paducah and one mile east of
Farm Road 104 (at 34°13' N, 100°04' W). The East Prong rises a
mile north of U.S. Highway 70 and two miles west of the Foard
county line (at 34°06' N, 100°05' W), and the West Prong rises
two miles southeast of Swearingen (at 34°07' N, 100°07' W). The
third tributary, the Middle Prong, rises two miles north of U.S.
Highway 70 and three miles west of the Foard county line (at
34°07' N, 100°06' W) and runs north to its mouth on the West
Prong, one mile upstream from its confluence with the East Prong
(at 34°10' N, 100°05' W). Each of the tributaries flows six
miles northeast. The system traverses locally faulted rolling to
steep terrain surfaced by sh