- Yalobusha River
The Yalobusha River is a
river , 165 mi (266 km) long, in north-centralMississippi in theUnited States . It is a principaltributary of theYazoo River , via which it is part of the watershed of theMississippi River .The
United States Board on Geographic Names settled on the river's name in 1892. According to theGeographic Names Information System , it has also been known as "Yallabusha" and as the "Yellowbushy River."Course
The Yalobusha River rises in Chickasaw County, northwest of the town of Houston, and flows generally west-southwestwardly through Calhoun, Grenada and Leflore Counties, past the town of Grenada. At Greenwood it joins the
Tallahatchie River to form the Yazoo River.Much of the Yalobusha's course through Calhoun County has been straightened and channelized; this section of the river is also known as the "Yalobusha River Canal." In Grenada County, the river is impounded by a
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam to formGrenada Lake , which collects the Yalobusha's largest tributary, theSkuna River .ee also
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List of Mississippi rivers External links
* [http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/Lakes/grenadalake/main.php Grenada Lake]
ources
* [http://reference.allrefer.com/gazetteer/Y/Y00186-yalobusha-river.html Columbia Gazetter of North America entry]
*DeLorme (1998). "Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-346-X.
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