Batupan Bogue is a
stream
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in the
U.S. state
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of
Mississippi
Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...
.
It is a tributary to the
Yalobusha River
The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The name "Yalobusha" comes from the Choctaw ...
.
It has an average discharge of 409 cubic feet per second near
Grenada, MS.
Name
''Batupan Bogue'' is a name derived from the
Choctaw language
The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean languages, Muskogean language family. Chickasaw language, Chickasaw is a separate but closely related l ...
.
Its many variant names include:
*Bataupan River Bogue
*Batawpan Bogue
*Batupan Bogue Creek
*Batupan River
*Batupon Bogue
*Beacapon Bogue Creek
*Big Bogue Creek
*Bogue Creek
*Worsham Creek
References
Rivers of Mississippi
Rivers of Grenada County, Mississippi
Mississippi placenames of Native American origin
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