Luxapallila Creek Explained

33.7681°N -87.8605°W Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a 73.6adj=midNaNadj=mid[1] stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Choctaw: Luxapalila means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language.[2]

The creek drains a watershed of 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 Alabama cities of Winfield, Millport, Kennedy, Fayette,[4] and Columbus, Mississippi.

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The National Map . U.S. Geological Survey . Feb 25, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ . 2012-03-29 .
  2. William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, p. 256 https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&dq=%22Luxapallila+Creek%22&pg=PA256
  3. http://www.wrri.msstate.edu/lux.asp Mississippi State University
  4. http://www.riversofalabama.org/Tombigbee/TB_Tributaries.htm Rivers of Alabama

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