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{{Short description|Stream in Alabama}}

File:David Rumsey 2593.031 from the Alabama Georgia map dated circa 1825.jpg

File:Steatite_bird_pipe,_unfinished,_found_at_Carpenter's_Bend_of_Tallasseehatchee_Creek.jpg, found at Carpenter's Bend, Tallasseehatchee Creek]]

Tallasseehatchee Creek is a stream near Jacksonville, in Calhoun County, eastern Alabama, United States. It is a tributary to the Coosa River.{{GNIS|158936}} Tallasseehatchee Creek is about {{Convert|25|mi|km}} long, and flows southwest to Ohatchee Creek. Little Tallasseehatchee Creek, which is about {{Convert|8|mi|km}} long, flows northwest to Tallasseehatchee Creek on the west side of Jacksonville.{{Cite web |title=Decisions on geographic names in the United States / United States Board on Geographic Names no.6601-6804 1966-1968. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055324134&seq=543&q1=%22Tallasseehatchee+Creek%22 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}} Deprecated spellings include Tallahatchee Creek, Tallasahatchee Creek, and Tallaseehatchee Creek. According to the Geographical Survey of Alabama, "Tallasseehatchee Creek is more mineralized than most streams in the Coosa River basin. The water is hard but contains almost no color."{{Cite web |title=Information series / Geological Survey of Alabama no.20-28 1960-1962. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006165578&seq=642&q1=%22Tallasseehatchee+Creek%22 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=HathiTrust |page=50 |language=en}}

There are historic shell mounds along the creek.{{Cite web |title=Our state--Alabama, compiled by Marie Bankhead Owen from the four volume historical work written by her husband, the late Thomas M. Owen, entitled "History ... |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b727481&seq=738&q1=Tallasseehatchee |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=HathiTrust |page=734 |language=en}} In 1560 Spanish troops under Tristán de Luna y Arellano began an expedition against the Napochie people beginning at a location between Talladega Creek and Tallasseehatchee Creek.{{Cite web |title=Museum paper / Alabama Museum of Natural History no.17-18. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4150850&seq=127&q1=Tallasseehatchee&start=1 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=HathiTrust |pages=109–110 |language=en}} It is notable as the site of a Muscogee tribal town destroyed at the Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813.{{Cite web |title=Indian place-names in Alabama no.29. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x030789993&seq=87&q1=Tallasseehatchee |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=HathiTrust |page=63 |language=en}} Tallasseehatchee Creek could potentially support a population of the endemic Alabama live-bearing snail Tulotoma magnifica—surveys identified a population in nearby Ohatchee Creek in 1990—but none were found during a 2003 survey by malacologists.{{Cite journal |last=DeVries |first=Dennis R. |last2=Armstrong |first2=David L. |last3=Topolski |first3=Marek |last4=Pine |first4=William E. |last5=Johnson |first5=Judith A. |last6=Dunham |first6=Rex A. |last7=Robison |first7=Lynn |last8=DiBona |first8=Julie |last9=Norgren |first9=Kim |last10=Hartfield |first10=Paul |last11=Cook |first11=Stan |date=2003 |title=Distribution, Habitat Use, and Genetics of Tulotoma magnifica (Gastropoda:Viviparidae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3878087 |journal=Southeastern Naturalist |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=35–58 |issn=1528-7092}}{{Rp|page=37}}