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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 ...
Potamologists believe the Yazoo River had its origins as the lower Ohio River. [2] The French (and later the Anglo-American settlers) historically called the surrounding area of Mississippi and Alabama the Yazoo lands, after the river. This became the basis for naming the Yazoo Land Scandal of the late 18th and early 19th century.
In the Yazoo Basin, settlers were faced with high waters for most of the year, making it hard for building homes and maintaining agriculture. A few man-made levees were built to improve conditions. In 1927, large floods ravaged the area, allowing Congress to take action into building dams and more levees to reduce the risk of floods. [14]
The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta. Rather, the Mississippi Delta is part of an alluvial plain, created by regular flooding of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers over thousands of years. The climate is ...
Yazoo City is the county seat of Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States.It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth.
A fast-spreading wildfire that erupted this week northwest of Los Angeles roared from nothing to nearly 10,000 acres − in a matter of hours.
Yazoo Clay, a geologic formation in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; Yazoo County, Mississippi. Yazoo City, Mississippi; Yazoo lands, a historic area in Mississippi and Alabama formerly occupied by the Yazoo tribe; Yazoo River, Mississippi, United States; Yazoo stream, a type of floodplain tributary
The river is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi but is threatened by the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumping Plant project which they say has the potential to damage 200,000 acres of important wetland.