Yockanookany River
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The Yockanookany River is a river, about 65 mi (105 km) long, in central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
[edit] Course
The Yockanookany rises in Choctaw County in the vicinity of the town of Ackerman and flows generally southwestwardly through Attala and Leake Counties, past the towns of Weir, McCool, Ethel and Kosciusko. It flows into the Pearl River in southwestern Leake County.
Much of the Yockanookany's upper course through Choctaw and Attala Counties has been straightened and channelized; in some of these areas, water continues also to flow in the river's old natural channel.
Downstream of Kosciusko, the river is paralleled by the Natchez Trace Parkway.
[edit] Variant names
The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Yockanookany River" as the stream's name in 1949. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river has also been known as:
- Yexgonnongoune River
- Yockahockany River
- Yockammockanna Creek
- Yokahocany River
- Yokahochany River
- Yokahockana River
- Yokahockany Creek
- Yokahockany River
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (1998). Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-346-X.
- GNIS entry
