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	Yazoo River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and the second longest tributary of the Mississippi River that flows into that river from the east (the longest is the Ohio River).
		The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to a Native American tribe living near the river's mouth.
		The river is 188 miles long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_River (251 words)

	Yazoo City, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is 40 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi at the junctions of Highways 3, 49E and 49W on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
		During the American Civil War a makeshift shipyard was established on the Yazoo River at Yazoo City after the Confederate loss of New Orleans.
		Yazoo City was the childhood home of blues musician Tommy McClennan, of Wiiliam J (Joe) Fisher, C.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_City,_Mississippi (683 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word missi-sipi meaning 'big river' (gichi-ziibi in the modern language), is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi.
		The river is divided into the upper Mississippi, from its source south to the Ohio River, and the lower Mississippi, from the Ohio to its mouth near New Orleans.
		Louis; and the middle Mississippi, a relatively free-flowing river downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mississippi-River (7159 words)

	Yazoo River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yazoo River was named by French explorer (Click link for more info and facts about La Salle) La Salle in 1682 in reference to a (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native American tribe living near the river's mouth.
		This is due to the Yazoo being unable to join the Mississippi because of the natural (A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea) levees that flank the Mississippi.
		The river was of major importance during the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yazoo_river.htm (279 words)

	YAZOO. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although subject to flooding, the fertile plain between the two rivers, called the Delta, is a major cotton growing region.
		In the spring of 1973 about 2,800 sq mi (7,250 sq km) of the Yazoo basin were inundated by water backed up because of floods on the Mississippi River; parts of the Delta region were saturated for as long as four months, causing a delay in spring plantings.
		The Yazoo River is exemplary of a stream of deferred junction, and the term yazoo is generally applied to any stream that has a belated confluence with the main river.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ya/Yazoo.html (154 words)

	Yazoo
		The River was given its name by the French Explorer, La Salle, in 1682 when the found a small Indian tribe with that name living near its mouth.
		The first underwater mine was invented and used by Confederates on the Yazoo River in 1862 near Vicksburg to sink the Federal ironclad USS Cairo.
		The River was the cause of Yazoo City’s founding, and was its lifeline to the outside world for its first 50 years.
	www.yazoo.org /website/history/history_yazoo_river.htm (270 words)

	LOADS OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPORUS TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM THE YAZOO RIVER
		The proximity of the Yazoo River Basin in northwestern Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, and the intensive agriculture in the basin have lead to speculation that the Yazoo River Basin contributes a disproportionate amount of nitrogen and phosphorus to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Yazoo River loads, compared to long-term annual loads in the Mississippi River, indicated that the Yazoo River was contributing 2.3 percent or less of the total nitrogen load, 5.7 percent or less of the total phosphorus load, and 1 percent or less of the nitrate load in 1996 and 1997.
		Annual loads from the Yazoo River were compared to the long-term historical loads in the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, and it was demonstrated that the annual contribution of total nitrogen, nitrate, and total phosphorus from the Yazoo River Basin was 2.3, 1.0, and 5.7 percent or less, respectively for 1996 and 1997.
	ms.water.usgs.gov /ms_proj/nawqa/pubs/wrir/rhcoupe_yazoo.html (6357 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yazoo River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		hTe Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and the second longest tributary of the Mississippi River that flows into that river from the east (the longest is the Ohio River).
		This is due to the Yazoo being unable to join the Mississippi because of the natural levees that flank the Mississippi.
		The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States â€“ forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union â€“ and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yazoo-River (687 words)

	Yazoo
		For most, the dominant impression of Yazoo County is the sudden appearance of the Delta, stretching to the horizon from the top of the last, long hill from which Yazoo City's Broadway Street descends.
		Yazoo City - the county seat and principle city - was originally named Manchester.
		The diverse culture of Yazoo County has produced a range of notable residents including the late comedian Jerry Clower; authors the late Willie Morris and Zig Ziglar; actress Stella Stevens and blues singers Gatemouth Moore and Jack Owens.
	www.yazoo.org /about1.htm (448 words)

	Green Scissors Big Sunflower River "Maintenance" and Yazoo Pumps Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yazoo Backwater Pumps - which would be the world's largest pump assembly - are part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) plan from another era to "replumb" the Mississippi River Delta through a series of water diversions and channels.
		The re-suspension of DDT and toxaphene-contaminated sediment caused by dredging the Big Sunflower River would be a health risk to the subsistence, commercial and recreational anglers that fish the Big Sunflower and connected rivers.
		Dredging the River also would devastate the river's instream habitat, destroy at least 43 percent of the river's abundant mussel beds, and damage more than 3,600 acres of wetlands that are also in harm's way from the Pumps.
	www.greenscissors.org /water/bigsunflower.htm (867 words)

	Yazoo County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Research
		Yazoo county and river derived their name from a tribe of Indians who inhabited that section.
		There is a tradition that the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians came from the West over the Mississippi river and combining their forces, waged a war of extermination against the Yazoo and other tribes and that the Yazoos fought desperately until the last of their race was slain.
		The Choctaws were in possession of part of this country when it was first discovered by the white man, though the Yazoos were not exterminated, as their name appears on many of the earliest maps of this part of the country.
	www.natchezbelle.org /ahgp-ms/yazoo/history1.htm (653 words)

	Yazoo River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		river formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha rivers north of Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S. It meanders about 190 miles (306 km) generally south and southwest, much of the way paralleling the Mississippi River, which it joins at Vicksburg.
		News of the Yazoo Act and the dealing behind it aroused anger throughout the state and resulted in a large turnover of legislators in the 1796...
		This region between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers is the Yazoo Basin, or Delta, one of the most...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077884?tocId=9077884 (852 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "Y"
		The region of Mississippi known as the Delta is actually the common floodplain of the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers.
		It is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River (an actual river in Mississippi) and its southern boundary is the Yoknapatawpha River.
		In As I Lay Dying, the river flooded, washing several bridges out, so Anse Bundren and his family were initially unable to cross the river as they were trying to transport the body of Addie Bundren to Jefferson for burial.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryy.html (620 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Yazoo Indians
		The Yazoo, however, like the Chickasaw were under the influence of the English traders from Carolina, and in 1702 aided the Koroa in the murder of Father Nicholas Foucault and three French companions while asleep; as a result Father Davion was temporarily withdrawn.
		In 1718 the French established near the village a fort (St. Pierre) to command the river.
		The Yazoo shared in the destruction of the Natchez, the remnant fleeing to the Chickasaw and apparently being absorbed finally by the Choctaw.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15732d.htm (451 words)

	M59 Shaw (Milton W.) Letter
		The Yazoo Pass, a bayou cut-off in the Mississippi River directly across from Helena, Arkansas, had, in the early 1800's, provided the fastest river route between Yazoo City, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee.
		General Grant sent Colonel James H. Wilson to investigate the Yazoo Pass in early February 1863; Wilson blasted the levee, sent troops into Moon Lake and down the Coldwater River, and on March 11, 1863, brought boats within sight and gunrange of Fort Pemberton.
		He expected shortly to enter the Yazoo Pass and travel via Moon Lake, the Coldwater River, the Tallahatchie River, and the Sunflower River into the Yazoo River.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m059text.htm (462 words)

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		East of Yazoo which Flows north to the Yalobusa map we have.Couldn't find the Creek mention in between the Yazoo and Yalobusha but should be in the same general Area.
		Pearl River, located in Neshoba County, is the largest Choctaw Indian community, and is the site of Tribal government headquarters, as well as Pearl River Resort.
		This river is an excellent example of a southern forest/swamp river, with fairly easy access and nice gravel sandbars throughout most of its course.
	www.pantherslodge.com /thornton.html (1081 words)

	Yazoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and Alabama
		Yazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drink made by Campina
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_(disambiguation) (82 words)

	DISTRICT INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Then in 1917 Congress adopted the first true flood control act to relieve Mississippi River overflow by setting standards for higher and stronger levees and placing revetments to prevent loss of levees to caving riverbanks.
		Because the downstream channels are not yet able to handle the maximum levels of discharge from the hillside reservoirs, successive rain events have caused the reservoirs to overflow through their emergency spillways on a number of occasions creating downstream flooding problems.
		Their primary purpose is to prevent overflow water from flowing fast enough to cause scout in the borrow pits, but they also serve as means 0of access to other riversides lands.
	www.leveeboard.org /district_information.htm (2105 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rising river alluded to by both Hussey and Moats as a major problem is not usually mentioned in histories.
		Between these hills and the two rivers are the Yazoo Swamps, noted for their dense woods and low, marshy lands, part of which was once the old bed of the Yazoo [River].
		On the December 27, 1862, we landed at the mouth of the Yazoo River, and were immediately advanced with the rest of the troops some six miles toward Vicksburg, where we had a successful skirmish with the enemy, without loss to this regiment…
	www.civilwarmuster.org /battle/ChickasawBluff.htm (3612 words)

	Yazoo River - Wikipedia
		Der Yazoo River ist ein Nebenfluss des Mississippi River im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi.
		In den Jahren vor dem amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg spielte der Yazoo eine wichtige Rolle in der Ökonomie der Südstaaten.
		In der Nähe seiner Ufer lag ein Schwerpunkt des Baumwollanbaus, zahlreiche Schaufelraddampfer fuhren vom Yazoo aus nach New Orleans.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_River (134 words)

	Chapter 2, Grant's Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign... - History of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry
		The regiment was camped alongside several other regiments guarding a river crossing known as "the Mouth of the Tippa." The Tippa River emptied into the Tallahatchie at this point.
		While the Yazoo Pass project was underway General Grant had received intelligence of Confederate troop movements from Grenada and Vicksburg which could have led to General Ross being surrounded and blockaded at Fort Pemberton.
		This route would be up the Yazoo to Steele's Bayou, then to Black Bayou, then to Deer Creek, over to Rolling Fork, then to the Sunflower River, and finally from there back to the Yazoo River midway between Yazoo City and Haine's Bluff.
	www.angelfire.com /ms2/33Miss/chapter2.htm (5734 words)

	Lower Yazoo River Basin Economic and Environmental Restoration Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Lower Yazoo River Basin Economic and Environmental Restoration Initiative outlines a strategy for public investments to be used in accomplishing some of the goals and recommendations established by an interagency task force and broad group of stakeholders in the report Delta Vision, Delta Voices: The Mississippi Delta Beyond 2000.
		This strategy for the Lower Yazoo River Basin combines components for public health and safety, floodplain reforestation and community economic development.
		The following is an outline for an economic and environmental restoration initiative for the Lower Yazoo River Basin, a proposed alternative to the Yazoo Backwater Pumping Plant project.
	www.epa.gov /region04/water/specialprojects/yazoo/investment.htm (1108 words)

	Historic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second largest tributary to the mighty Mississippi, the Yazoo River has been overlooked by historians.
		This river was also the primary route into the delta region, bringing in the unique people and culture that thrived here.
		Scenic drives, such as Bell Road, located south of Yazoo City,(pictured to the right) is part of the original road that stretched from Yazoo City to Vicksburg and was used by travelers in the 1820's.
	virtual.tecinfo.com /~yazoo/Historic.htm (409 words)

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		During the period, September to December 1999, water samples were collected at different locations in three replicates from the Big Sunflower River in the area near the Delta National Forest in Sharkey County and the Lower Yazoo River in Redwood, MS.
		For the Big Sunflower River, the parameters tested and the averages readings recorded were: hardness (189 ppm), alkalinity (61.3 ppm), pH (6.9), dissolved oxygen (6.8 ppm), chromate (0.6 ppm), chloride (48.0 ppm), and fluoride (0.3 ppm).
		The average surface water temperature was 24.30 C. For the Yazoo River, the average readings recorded were: alkalinity (110.6 ppm), pH (7.8), dissolved oxygen (9.1 ppm), chromate (0 ppm), chloride (23.4 ppm), fluoride (0.1 ppm), and sulfate (0 ppm).
	abstracts.allenpress.com /esa/web2000/abstracts/ALE-3-84-15.html (298 words)

	Development of a Decision Support System for Prioritizing Forested Wetlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because an exact spatial representation of wetlands in the lower Yazoo River Basin does not exist, surrogate data layers are used to predict locations that might be restored to a functional wetland.
		The study area examined was the Yazoo backwater area of the lower Yazoo River Basin, which included at least a portion of the following six counties in Mississippi: Warren, Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Humphreys, and Washington.
		The Yazoo backwater area is in the southern portion of the Yazoo River Basin, bounded by the Mississippi River levee on the west and the valley wall on the east and south.
	www.epa.gov /region4/water/specialprojects/yazoo/dssdocument.htm (5848 words)

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