Yalobusha River
The Yalobusha River is a river, {{convert|165|mi|km}} long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
File:Yalobusha River at Grenada Lake.jpg
The name "Yalobusha" comes from the Choctaw word yalooboshi, meaning "little tadpole", from yalooba, "tadpole", and -ushi, "diminutive".{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA578|access-date=14 April 2011|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=578}} The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on the river's name in 1892. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known as "Yallabusha" and as the "Yellowbushy River."{{GNIS|679910|Yalobusha River}}
Course
The Yalobusha River rises in Chickasaw County, northwest of the town of Houston, and flows generally west-southwestwardly through Calhoun, Grenada and Leflore Counties, past the town of Grenada. At Greenwood it joins the Tallahatchie River to form the Yazoo River.
Much of the Yalobusha's course through Calhoun County has been straightened and channelized; this section of the river is also known as the "Yalobusha River Canal." In Grenada County, the river is impounded by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam to form Grenada Lake, which collects the Yalobusha's largest tributary, the Skuna River.
The Yalobusha at Grenada, MS averages a discharge of 2,436 cubic feet per second.{{Cite web|url=https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ms/nwis/annual/?format=sites_selection_links&search_site_no=07285500&agency_cd=USGS&referred_module=sw|title = USGS Surface Water data for Mississippi: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics}}
Major tributaries
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090109022718/http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/Lakes/ms/grenada/ Grenada Lake]
Sources
- [http://reference.allrefer.com/gazetteer/Y/Y00186-yalobusha-river.html Columbia Gazetter of North America entry]
- DeLorme (1998). Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-346-X}}.
- {{Gnis|679911|Yalobusha River Canal}}
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Category:Rivers of Mississippi
Category:Bodies of water of Calhoun County, Mississippi
Category:Bodies of water of Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Category:Bodies of water of Grenada County, Mississippi