33°46′5.12″N 87°51′37.95″W / 33.7680889°N 87.8605417°W
Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a 73.6-mile-long (118.4 km)[1] stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Luxapalila means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language.[2]
The creek drains a watershed of 803 square miles (2,080 km2) and flows through Lamar County, Marion County, Fayette County and Pickens County in Alabama and Monroe County and Lowndes County in Mississippi.[3][4] It runs through the Alabama cities of Winfield, Millport, Kennedy, Fayette,[4] and Columbus, Mississippi.
Its tributaries are Cut Bank Creek, Hell's Creek, Magby Creek, Mud Creek, Wilson Creek, and Yellow Creek.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The National Map". U.S. Geological Survey. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2011.
- ^ William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007, p. 256 [1]
- ^ Mississippi State University Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Rivers of Alabama Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine