Luxapallila Creek

Coordinates: 33°46′5.12″N 87°51′37.95″W / 33.7680889°N 87.8605417°W Luxapalila Creek is a 73.6-mile-long (118.4 km)[1] stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Luxapalila means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language.[2]

The creek drains a watershed of 803 square miles (2,080 km2) and flows through Lamar County, Marion County, Fayette County and Pickens County in Alabama and Monroe County and Lowndes County in Mississippi.[3][4] It runs through the cities of Winfield, Millport, Kennedy, Vernon, and Fayette.[4]

Its tributaries are Cut Bank Creek, Hell's Creek, Magby Creek, Mud Creek, Wilson Creek, and Yellow Creek.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The National Map". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved Feb 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, p. 256
  3. ↑ Mississippi State University
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rivers of Alabama