Buckatunna Creek is a

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 ...

in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

. It is a tributary to the

Chickasawhay River The Chickasawhay River is a river, about long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of we ...

. ''Buckatunna Creek'' is a name derived from the

Choctaw language The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, is part of the Muskogean language family. Chickasaw is separate but closely related language to Choctaw. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahom ...

meaning "creek at which there is weaving". Variant names are "Bucatunna Creek", "Buckatanna Creek", "Buckatanne River", "Buckatanny Creek", "Buckatonna Creek", "Buckhatannee Creek", and "Puckatunna Creek". The creek lends its name to the community of

Buckatunna, Mississippi Buckatunna is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community located in Wayne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 383 at the 2020 census. Buckatunna is located in the southeast corner of Wayne County, just west o ...

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Rivers of Mississippi Rivers of Clarke County, Mississippi Rivers of Lauderdale County, Mississippi Rivers of Wayne County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{Mississippi-river-stub