Canoochee River
{{Short description|River in Georgia, United States}}
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File:Canoochee River, Georgia.jpg
The Canoochee River (pronounced kuh-NOO-chee) is a {{convert|108|mi|km|adj=mid|-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 April 26, 2011 river in southeastern Georgia in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ogeechee River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. In 1738 the Trustees of the colony mentioned the proposed house and ferry boat over the 'Cooanoochi River'.'Index: C,' in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 43, 1737, ed. K G Davies (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963), 339-345, Retrieved July 4, 2015, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol43/pp339-345 British History website]
Course
The Canoochee River is formed about {{convert|12|mi}} southeast of Swainsboro in southwestern Emanuel County by the confluence of Canoochee Creek and Little Canoochee Creek, and flows generally southeastwardly through or along the boundaries of Candler, Evans, Bryan, and Liberty counties, through Fort Stewart. It joins the Ogeechee River from the west in Bryan County, {{convert|15|mi}} south-southwest of Savannah.{{cite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:2783808607211817::NO::P3_FID:354987 |title=Feature Detail Report for: Canoochee River |access-date=December 6, 2013}}
Name origin
"Canoochee" may be a name derived from the Muscogee language, meaning "little ground".{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=34 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}} The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Canoochee River" as the stream's preferred spelling in 1910. According to the Geographic Names Information System, variant names have included:{{Gnis|354987}}
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Sources
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050614075446/http://reference.allrefer.com/gazetteer/C/C01731-canoochee-river.html Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry]
- DeLorme (2003). Georgia Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-253-6}}.
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Category:Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Rivers of Bryan County, Georgia
Category:Rivers of Candler County, Georgia
Category:Rivers of Emanuel County, Georgia