The Sepulga River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
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accessed April 15, 2011 river in the

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state of

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

. It originates at the confluence of the East Sepulga and West Sepulga rivers and discharges into the

Conecuh River The Conecuh River (upper portion) and Escambia River (lower portion) are a single river in the southern United States, which flows from Alabama through Florida into the Gulf of Mexico. The Conecuh River rises near Union Springs, Alabama and flow ...

near the northwestern border of Conecuh National Forest. The name Sepulga is possibly of either Creek or

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

origin. If Creek, it is possibly from ''asi'' meaning "

yaupon ''Ilex vomitoria'', commonly known as yaupon () or yaupon holly, is a species of holly that is native to southeastern North America. The word yaupon was derived from the Catawban ''yą́pą'', from ''yą-'' tree + ''pą'' leaf. Another common n ...

" and ''algi'' meaning "grove". If Choctaw in origin, the name is possibly derived from ''shoboli'', which means "smoky".

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