Skuna River

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The Skuna River is a tributary of the Yalobusha River, about 75 mi (120 km) long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. Via the Yalobusha and Yazoo Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Contents 1 Course 2 Variant names 3 See also 4 External links 5 Sources

[edit] Course

The Skuna River rises about 4 mi (6 km) west of Pontotoc in Pontotoc County and flows generally southwestwardly through Chickasaw and Calhoun Counties, past the town of Bruce. Most of the river's course has been channelized, and it is also known as the "Skuna River Canal." It joins the Yalobusha River 6 mi (9.7 km) east of Grenada, as the north arm of Grenada Lake, which is formed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam on the Yalobusha.

[edit] Variant names

The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Skuna River" as the stream's name in 1912. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known as:

• Loosa Schoona
• Loosa Shooner Creek
• Schoona
• Schooner
• Scoona Creek
• Scoopa Creek
• Scuna
• Shooner

[edit] See also

• List of Mississippi rivers

[edit] External links

• Grenada Lake

[edit] Sources

• Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
• DeLorme (1998). Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-346-X.
• GNIS entry for Skuna River
• GNIS entry for Skuna River Canal