Bophumpa Creek

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″N 89°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″N 90°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]

References

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

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[GNIS-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bophumpa Creek

[USGS-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.

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