Bayou Macon

{{Short description|River in the United States of America}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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| name = Bayou Macon

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| image = Image:Bayou Macon.jpg

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| image_caption = Bayou Macon as seen from Poverty Point Reservoir State Park

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| map_caption = Bayou Macon

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| subdivision_name1 = United States

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| subdivision_name2 = {{hlist |Arkansas| Louisiana}}

| subdivision_type3 = County

| subdivision_name3 = Chicot

| subdivision_type4 = Parishes

| subdivision_name4 = {{hlist |West Carroll |East Carroll |Richland |Madison |Franklin}}

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| length = {{convert|218|mile|abbr=on}}

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| discharge1_location = Delhi, Louisiana

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| discharge1_avg = 844 cu/ft. per sec.{{Cite web|url=https://waterdata.usgs.gov/la/nwis/annual/?format=sites_selection_links&search_site_no=07370000&agency_cd=USGS&referred_module=sw|title = USGS Surface Water data for Louisiana: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics}}

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| source1_location = Desha County, Arkansas

| source1_coordinates = {{Coord|33.77094|-91.43762|format=dms|display=inline|type:river_region:US-AR}}

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| mouth = Confluence with the Tensas River

| mouth_location = Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

| mouth_coordinates = {{Coord|31.91349|-91.54790|format=dms|display=inline|type:river_region:US-LA}}

| mouth_elevation = 33 ft.

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Bayou Macon is a bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana. It begins in Desha County, Arkansas, and flows south, between the Boeuf River to its west and the Mississippi River to its east, before joining Joe's Bayou south of Delhi in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Bayou Macon is about {{convert|218|mi}} long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed June 3, 2011{{GNIS|553486}}

The bayou area saw action during the American Civil War including from the 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry in May 1863 in the areas then known as Caledonia and Pin Hook.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjicJWUQhPYC&q=William+Y.+Roberts&pg=PA198 |title = The Civil War in Louisiana|isbn = 9780807117255|last1 = Winters|first1 = John D.|date = August 1991}}{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLcZAAAAYAAJ&q=Zesch+caledonia&pg=PA697 |title = Congressional Serial Set|year = 1891}}

File:Bridge over Bayou Macon east of Epps, LA IMG_7435.JPG and West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana was replaced effective March 24, 2014 with a new structure valued at $4.6 million. Some seven hundred vehicles on Louisiana Highway 134 cross the bridge daily. Governor Bobby Jindal came to West Carroll Parish for the bridge dedication.{{cite news|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140324/NEWS01/303240041/Jindal-celebrates-bridge-opening-West-Carroll?nclick_check=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140325122738/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140324/NEWS01/303240041/Jindal-celebrates-bridge-opening-West-Carroll?nclick_check=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 25, 2014 |title=Jindal celebrates bridge opening in West Carroll, March 24, 2014 |newspaper=Monroe News-Star |accessdate=March 25, 2014 }}

]]The Bayou Macon Wildlife Management Area comprises 6,919 acres in East Carroll Parish and was acquired by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in 1991.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/wma/32643|title=Bayou Macon {{!}} Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries|website=www.wlf.louisiana.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-05-05}}{{Clear}}