Tchoutacabouffa River

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country=United States
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state=Mississippi
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district=Harrison County
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length_imperial=31
length_note= [http://www.bartleby.com/69/57/H01457.html Harrison] , The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.]
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discharge_location=Biloxi Bay
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discharge_note= [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-ms-05-1/pdf/WDR_MS_05_1.pdf Water Data Report, Mississippi 2005] , from [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-ms-05-1/ Water Resources Data Mississippi Water Year 2005] , USGS.]
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source_lat_d=30
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source_long_d=88
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source_long_s=50
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mouth_lat_d=30
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title=Tchoutacabouffa River
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url=http://www.placenames.com/us/p694951/
accessdate=2008-07-02 ]
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The Tchoutacabouffa River is a stream located in Harrison County, Mississippi, at a Latitude of 30.435 and Longitude of -88.99222. The river's mouth is located just north of the city of Biloxi at Biloxi Bay and south of Interstate 10,cite web|last=|first=|title=Tchoutacabouffa River (Harrison)|publisher=Usa.indettaglio.it|date=|url=http://usa.indettaglio.it/eng/28/047/694951.html|accessdate=2008-07-02 ] and it flows approximately 31 miles to the north.cite web|last=|first=|title=Clean Water Act Status: Tchoutacabouffa River|publisher=Scorecard.com|date=2005|url=http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/water/cwa-waterbody.tcl?waterbody_id=MS117M1-1998|accessdate=2008-07-02 ]

Southern Mississippi art potter George E. Ohr, who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, dug much of the clay he used for his works locally from the Tchoutacabouffa River.cite web|last=Klein Albertson|first=Karla|title=The Odyssey of George E. Ohr|publisher=Antiques and the Arts Online|date=2003-09-02|url=http://antiquesandthearts.com/2003-09-02__12-27-05.html&page=2|accessdate=2008-05-06 ] Tchoutacabouffa is the Biloxi tribe's word for "broken pot."cite book|last=McKee|first=Jesse O.|coauthors=Velvelyn Blackwell Foster, Stephen Young, et al.|title=Mississippi: The Magnolia State|publisher=Clairmont Press|location=Atlanta|date=2005|pages=p. 330|url=http://www.clairmontpress.com/MS05/Textbook/MS%202004%2013.pdf|isbn=1567331254 ]

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