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Ripley is a city in Tippah County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 5,395 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Tippah County. [5]Colonel William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of authors William Faulkner and John Faulkner, was a prominent resident of Ripley in the mid to late-19th century.
The Mississippi Headwaters subregion, sometimes called the Mississippi Headwaters Hydrologic Subregion, is a second-level subdivision [1] covering approximately 20,200 sq mi (52,000 km 2) and includes the Mississippi River basin above the confluence with the St. Croix River basin, excluding the Minnesota River basin. [2]
Lake Chautauqua is a reservoir in the U.S. state of Mississippi. [1] The lake's name is a transfer from Chautauqua Lake, in New York. [2] References
Low water levels in the Mississippi River have been approaching a historic low for the last week. At least eight barges have run aground due to the drop in water level , the AP reported.
Tippah County is a county located on the northern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,815. [1] Its county seat is Ripley. [2] The name "Tippah" is derived from a Chickasaw language word meaning "cut off."
The Upper Mississippi water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the ...
Clouds are reflected off the city of Jackson’s O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility’s sedimentation basins in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
The water district manager has proposed the construction of a couple of dams on tributaries called the Big and the Little Cedar creeks to manage the river's flow during a drought crisis. Since 1999 the water level in the river has fallen as low as 1.15 ft (on September 6, 2015) and 0.2 ft (October 8, 2000), as measured at the Graham Ferry gauge.