Chickasawhay River

Chickasawhay River
Map of the Pascagoula River and watershed
Okatibbee Lake and Dam on Okatibbee Creek, a tributary of the Chickasawhay River

The Chickasawhay River is a river, about 210 miles (340 km) long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of western Alabama. The name "Chickasawhay" comes from the Choctaw word chikashsha-ahi, literally "Chickasaw potato".[1]

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Course

The Chickasawhay is formed by the confluence of the Chunky River and Okatibbee Creek at Enterprise in northwestern Clarke County and flows generally southward through Clarke, Wayne and Greene Counties into northern George County, where it meets the Leaf River to form the Pascagoula River. The Chickasawhay flows past the towns of Stonewall, Quitman, Shubuta, Waynesboro, and Leakesville.

See also

  • List of Mississippi rivers

References

  1. ^ Bright, William (2004). Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780806135984. http://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA97. Retrieved 14 April 2011. 

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Coordinates: 30°58′57″N 88°43′49″W / 30.9825°N 88.73028°W / 30.9825; -88.73028


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