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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 ...
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 .
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.
This system index map pertains to the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad. Date: 1915-01-01/1920-12-31: Collection: National Archives at College Park - Cartographic ;
U.S. Highway 61 between Vicksburg and Port Gibson was closed by backwater flooding along the Big Black River on May 12; it reopened June 1. Another portion of U.S. Highway 61 near Redwood was closed by backwater flooding along the Yazoo River on May 13 and was closed until June 3. [25]
The three other inmates — Marlon Willis, Marcus Green and Deliuwon Stowers — who escaped the Yazoo County Regional Correctional Facility on March 25 were all caught on the same day they escaped.
Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States" The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. [1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now ...
Map from 1863 showing Liverpool. During the early and mid-1800s, Liverpool Landing was "the hub of a bustling community, a steamboat stop and a shipping point for cotton". [3] During the American Civil War, Liverpool Landing's location at a bend in the Yazoo River made it an important defensive location for Confederate Army forces. Rugged ...