Chuquatonchee Creek
Chuquatonchee Creek is a stream in Chickasaw, Clay and Pontotoc counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is a tributary to Tibbee Creek. The stream headwaters arise at and the confluence with Line Creek to form Tibbee Creek is at . Name ''Chuquatonchee Creek'' is a name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "hog corn", a reference to a place where hogs were fattened. The Board on Geographic Names settled on "Chuquatonchee Creek" as the river's official name and spelling in 1966. According to the Geographic Names Information System The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ..., the Chuquatonchee Creek has also been known as: Chackawlatoher River, Chookahtonkchie Creek, Chookaloukchee Creek, Chookatonchee Creek, Chookatonchie Creek, Chookatonkchie Creek, Chookatoukc ...
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes th ...
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