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The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 miles (130 km) long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. [1] The river drains an area of about 8,800 square miles (23,000 km²) and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico .
The Pascagoula River is nationally significant as one of the largest unimpeded rivers remaining in the lower 48 states. [3] Rare species include the Pearl darter and the Yellow-blotched map turtle, both found only in this river and its tributaries.
The list of rivers in Mississippi includes any rivers that flow through part of the State of Mississippi.The major rivers in Mississippi are the Mississippi River, Pearl River, Pascagoula River and the Tombigbee River, along with their main tributaries: the Tallahatchie River, Yazoo River, Big Black River, Leaf River, and the Chickasawhay River.
Pascagoula Bay, early 18th-century French map. The name Pascagoula, which means "bread eater", is taken from the Pascagoula, a group of Native Americans found in villages along the Pascagoula River some distance above its mouth. Hernando de Soto seems to have made the first contact with them in the 1540s, though little is known of that encounter.
The day’s activities start at 9 a.m. with the Audubon Christmas Marketplace at the Pascagoula River Audubon Center. At 1 p.m. the Christmas Parade on Main Street starts rolling from the ...
On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker told the Jackson County, Mississippi, sheriff's office they were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi when they heard a whirring/whizzing sound, saw two flashing blue lights, and observed an oval shaped object 30–40 feet (9–12 m) across and 8–10 feet (2–3 ...
Apr. 16—As drivers race along the I-10 bridge spanning the Pascagoula River, the longest unimpeded river in the Lower 48 states, most have no clue what lies beneath. An osprey racing headfirst ...
The Chickasawhay River is a river, about 210 miles (340 km) long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. [1] The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of western Alabama.