Tensas River
Template:Use American English Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other The Tensas River[1] Template:IPAc-en is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches,[2] begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for Template:Convert[3] more or less in parallel with the Mississippi River. The confluence of the Tensas and the Ouachita rivers, in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, creates the Black River, not to be confused with Black Lake in Natchitoches Parish in north-central Louisiana.
For the twenty miles south of Interstate 20 between Delhi and Tallulah, the river winds its way through the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge (in Madison, Franklin, and Tensas parishes), which was established in 1980 "for the preservation and development of environmental resources" about the river. In 1881 the Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve the navigation by removing ordinary obstacles.[4] The navigation work began at Dallas, a village on the stream in Madison Parish. The bottomland hardwood forest near the Tensas River is some of the remaining habitat of the Louisiana black bear.[5]
The name Tensas is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people.[6] The first plantations along the Tensas River were established by settlers who had earlier plantations across the Mississippi River in the Natchez District.[7]
See also
References
- Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, http://www.fws.gov/tensasriver/, Retrieved 23 April 2005
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 3, 2011
- ↑ Benyaurd, W. H. H. (1882). Annual report upon the preservation of the ports of Memphis, Vicksburg, and Natchez : improvement of the navigation of Red River, Louisiana and of certain rivers in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; and water-gauges on the Mississippi and its principal tributaries, in charge of W. H. H. Benyaurd, being appendix P of the annual report of the Chief of Engineers for 1882.. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office., p. x.
- ↑ Benson, John F., and Michael J. Chamberlain. “Food Habits of Louisiana Black Bears (Ursus americanus luteolus) in Two Subpopulations of the Tensas River Basin.” The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 156, no. 1, University of Notre Dame, 2006, pp. 118–27, JSTOR website Retrieved 3 December 2021.
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- ↑ Owens, Jeffrey Alan. “Naming the Plantation: An Analytical Survey from Tensas Parish, Louisiana.” Agricultural History, vol. 68, no. 4, Agricultural History Society, 1994, pp. 46–69, JSTOR website. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
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- Rivers of Louisiana
- Rivers of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
- Rivers of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
- Rivers of Madison Parish, Louisiana
- Rivers of Franklin Parish, Louisiana
- Rivers of Tensas Parish, Louisiana
- Rivers of Concordia Parish, Louisiana
- Ouachita River
- Tributaries of the Red River of the South