| Deer Creek | |
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 Bridge of abandoned Illinois Central Railroad line across Deer Creek in Scott | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Boliver |
| • location | Scott, Bolivar County, Mississippi |
| • coordinates | 33°35′56″N 91°04′50″W / 33.59889°N 91.08056°W |
| Mouth | Yazoo River |
• location | Warren County, Mississippi |
• coordinates | 32°32′44″N 90°47′43″W / 32.54556°N 90.79528°W |
Deer Creek (also Issaquena Creek or Lower Deer Creek) is a creek in Mississippi, United States. Its source is Lake Bolivar, in Scott, Bolivar County, Mississippi.
Course
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As Deer Creek flows south through the Mississippi Delta, it passes through the following counties: Bolivar, Washington, Sharkey, Issaquena, and Warren; and through the following communities: Metcalfe, Stoneville, Leland, Burdett, Arcola, Hollandale, Panther Burn, Nitta Yuma, Anguilla, Rolling Fork, Cary, Onward, and Valley Park.
Prior to the Civil War the stream was navigable and accessible to the Mississippi River at Lake Bolivar.[1] The Deer Creek watershed is connected to the Big Sunflower River via the Rolling Fork Creek, a connection that occurs only at high water stages and can flow either way.[2]
During the Civil War, a battery of field guns was shipped up the stream to be carried to positions on the Mississippi River at "Greenville Bends" to fire on the U.S. Navy.[3]
Name
[edit]Deer Creek's name is an accurate preservation of its native Choctaw name isi okhina, meaning "deer river".[4]
Muddy Waters nickname
[edit]Muddy Waters got his nickname "Muddy Waters" by playing in the river.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mrs. Henry Vick Phelps (Dorothy Cole) and Henry Vick Phelps II. (1974). Nitta Yuma King Cotton. Nitta Yuma, Ms: D.C. Phelps. p. 22 f.
- ^ Golden, Harold G. (1960). Bulletin 60-2 "Low-flow characteristics Sunflower Basin, Mississippi." Jackson: U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Mississippi Board of Water Commissioners. p. 4.
- ^ Doyle, Daniel R. “The Civil War in the Greenville Bends.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly., vol. 70, no. 2, 2011, pp. 131–61. JSTOR website Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.
- ^ Chilton, Martin (2016-04-03). "Muddy Waters: celebrating a great blues musician". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-06-28.