Strong River
The Strong River is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] river in south-central Mississippi in the United States.[2] It is a tributary of the Pearl River,[3] which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
Course
The stream headwaters arise in the Bienville National Forest in Scott County, about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Forest at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".[2] and at an elevation of about 465 feet.[4] and flows generally to the southwest through Smith, Rankin and Simpson counties, past the town of D'Lo.[3] It flows into the Pearl River Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Georgetown at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". at an elevation of 197 feet.[2]
The Strong River takes its name from the English translation of the Choctaw words boke or boge homi, which means "bitter creek" or "strong tasting creek", a result of the tannic acid dissolved in the water by decomposing leaves. The name has nothing to do with the velocity of the stream.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
See also
References
Notes
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 13, 2011
- ↑ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Script error: No such module "If empty".
- ↑ a b Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 4th ed. 2010, pp 42-3 and 49 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Hillsboro, Mississippi, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
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Sources
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- Rivers of Mississippi
- Landforms of Rankin County, Mississippi
- Landforms of Scott County, Mississippi
- Landforms of Simpson County, Mississippi
- Landforms of Smith County, Mississippi
- Tributaries of the Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana)
- Mississippi placenames of Native American origin