Bophumpa Creek

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Bophumpa Creek is a stream in Holmes County in the U.S. state of Mississippi. [1] It is a tributary to Fannegusha Creek. [2]

The stream headwaters arise at 33°12′18″N89°56′56″W / 33.20500°N 89.94889°W / 33.20500; -89.94889 [1] at an elevation of approximately 420 feet. [3] The stream flows generally westward for approximately six miles through a rural area passing under Mississippi Highway 17 one mile north of the community of Lebanon to its confluence with Fannegusha Creek at 33°12′33″N90°04′09″W / 33.20917°N 90.06917°W / 33.20917; -90.06917 at elevation of 197 feet. [1] [2]

Bophumpa Creek is a name derived from the Choctaw language purported to mean either "rain creek" or "pawpaw creek". [4] A variant name is "Sweet Water Creek". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bophumpa Creek
  2. 1 2 Lexington North, MS, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
  3. Bowling Green, MS, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1964 (1982 rev.)
  4. Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 15–16. ISBN   978-1-60473-483-6.