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The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta , a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War .
The Yazoo Backwater Area in the Mississippi Delta north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, experienced both record flood stages and record duration of flooding during the winter, spring, and summer of 2019. Portions of Warren, Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Humphreys, and Washington Counties were flooded. Almost half of the land area of Issaquena and ...
A yazoo stream will join the major river where it will eventually break through the natural levees and flow into the larger waterway at its belated confluence. Mendenhall Glacier [13] Yazoo stream formation can also be influenced by glacial processes. An example is the formation of the Montana Creek valley during the recent Little Ice Age.
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In response, the United States Congress ordered the MR&T to review of the flood control plan. Maximum flows were changed to 2,600,000 cubic feet per second (74,000 m 3 /s) at Cairo, 3,065,000 cubic feet per second (86,800 m 3 /s) at Arkansas City with the White River backwater area levee overtopped, and Red River Landing unchanged at 3,000,000 ...
Lower Mississippi–Yazoo subregion: The Mississippi River Basin from the Arkansas River Basin to and including the Yazoo River Basin; excluding all drainage west of the West-Bank Levee below the Arkansas River Basin. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. 14,100 sq mi (37,000 km 2) HUC0803: 0804 Lower Red–Ouachita subregion
Mississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
U.S. President Donald Trump stripped Secret Service protection on Tuesday from his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who became the target of an alleged Iranian murder plot after he ...