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- Yazoo_River abstract "The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as \"Rivière des Yazous\" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth at its confluence with the Mississippi. The exact meaning of the term is unclear. One long held belief is that it means \"river of death\".The river is 188 miles (303 km) long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers, where present-day Greenwood developed. The river parallels the Mississippi River in the latter's floodplain for some distance before joining it north of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Natural levees which flank the Mississippi prevent the Yazoo from joining it before Vicksburg. A \"yazoo stream\" is a hydrologic term that was coined to describe any river or major stream with similar characteristics. Potamologists believe the Yazoo River had its origins as the lower Ohio River.The French (and later European Americans) historically called the surrounding area of Mississippi and Alabama the Yazoo lands, after the river. This became the basis for naming the Yazoo Land Scandal of the late 18th and early 19th century. The river was of major importance during the American Civil War. The Confederates used the first electrically detonated underwater mine in the river in 1862 near Vicksburg to sink the Union ironclad USS Cairo. The last section of the Cairo was raised on December 12, 1964. It has been restored and is now on permanent display to the public at the Vicksburg National Military Park. There are 29 sunken ships from the Civil War beneath the waters of the river. The steamer \"Dew Drop\" was reportedly sunk near Roebuck Lake as an obstruction to the United States Navy, but Union sources claim the vessel was captured and burned.Variant names of the Yazoo River include Zasu River, Yazous River, Yahshoo River, Rivière des Yasoux, and Fiume del Yasous.In 1876, the Mississippi River changed its course, shifting west several miles and leaving Vicksburg without a river front. In 1902, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers diverted the Yazoo River into the old river bed, forming the Yazoo Diversion Canal. The modern-day port of Vicksburg is still located on this canal. The commercial navigation of the Yazoo River has declined considerably since the 1990s and is mainly concentrated on the section from Vicksburg to Yazoo City.".
- Yazoo_River thumbnail Yazoo_river.gif?width=300.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageExternalLink Yazoo.htm.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageExternalLink map_eco.htm.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageExternalLink ms_eco.htm.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageID "296815".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageLength "5201".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageOutDegree "39".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageRevisionID "695664024".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Humphreys_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Leflore_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Warren_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Yazoo_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mississippi_Valley_Division.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rivers_and_streams_of_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tributaries_of_the_Mississippi_River.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Confluence.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Flood_Control_Act_of_1937.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Floodplain.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Greenwood,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Hydrology.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Ironclad_warship.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Levee.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink List_of_rivers_of_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi_Delta.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi_River.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Naval_mine.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink René-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink River.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Tallahatchie_River.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink U.S._state.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink USS_Cairo.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink USS_Linden_(1860).
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Vicksburg,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Vicksburg_National_Military_Park.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Yalobusha_River.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Yazoo_land_scandal.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Yazoo_lands.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Yazoo_stream.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink Yazoo_tribe.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink File:Mississippi_Yazoo_Delta.jpg.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink File:Yazoo_River_control_structure.jpg.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLink File:Yazoo_river.gif.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yazoo River".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yazoo river".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yazoo".
- Yazoo_River wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Gnis.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Yazoo_River wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Landforms_of_Humphreys_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Landforms_of_Leflore_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Landforms_of_Warren_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Landforms_of_Yazoo_County,_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Mississippi_Valley_Division.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Rivers_and_streams_of_Mississippi.
- Yazoo_River subject Category:Tributaries_of_the_Mississippi_River.
- Yazoo_River hypernym River.
- Yazoo_River point "32.33555555555556 -90.89722222222223".
- Yazoo_River type River.
- Yazoo_River type SpatialThing.
- Yazoo_River comment "The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as \"Rivière des Yazous\" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth at its confluence with the Mississippi.".
- Yazoo_River label "Yazoo River".
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- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoo_River.
- Yazoo_River sameAs Río_Yazoo.
- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoo_(rivière).
- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoo_(rivier).
- Yazoo_River sameAs 야주_강.
- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoo_(elv).
- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoo_(rzeka).
- Yazoo_River sameAs m.01rc0q.
- Yazoo_River sameAs Язу_(река).
- Yazoo_River sameAs Yazoofloden.
- Yazoo_River sameAs 4451823.
- Yazoo_River sameAs Q1201857.
- Yazoo_River lat "32.33555555555556".
- Yazoo_River long "-90.89722222222223".
- Yazoo_River wasDerivedFrom Yazoo_River?oldid=695664024.
- Yazoo_River depiction Yazoo_river.gif.
- Yazoo_River isPrimaryTopicOf Yazoo_River.