Shanty Hollow Lake

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location = Warren County, Kentucky
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Shanty Hollow Lake is a 135-acre artificial lake in Warren County, Kentucky. It was constructed in 1951.cite book |editor=Kleber, John E. |others=Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter |title="The Kentucky Encyclopedia" |year=1992 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=0813117720 |chapter=Lakes] The lake resides approximately 17 miles north of Bowling Green and is used for fishing. Fish which may be taken from the lake include largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, black crappie, white crappie, warmouth, channel catfish, and common carp [http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/shantyhollowlake.pdf] . Shanty Hollow Lake is a man-made lake, created by the damming of Clay Lick Creek [ [http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lon=-86.3911&lat=37.1544 TopoQuest - Shanty Hollow Lake, USGS Reedyville (KY) Topo Map] ] .

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Shanty Hollow has a unique sandstone geology, underlying with shale and subsequent limestone. It is popular with the local population for rock climbing and rappelling. It has a waterfall and a spring, most of the land is privately owned surrounding and it has been overused in some area's i.e. camping, bonfires, etc. There are many fossil molds and impressions of wood and bark structures in the sandstone facies and many of these have been replaced with iron concretions.