Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a stream in

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and

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in the

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. ''Luxapalila'' means "flying turtle" in 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 ...

. The creek drains a watershed of and flows through Lamar County, Marion County, Fayette County and Pickens County in Alabama and

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and Lowndes County in Mississippi.Mississippi State University

It runs through the Alabama cities of Winfield, Millport, Kennedy, Fayette, and

Columbus, Mississippi Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterwa ...

. Its tributaries are

Cut Bank Creek The Cut Bank Creek is a tributary of the Marias River in the Missouri river basin watershed, approximately 75 mi (123 km) long, in northwestern Montana in the United States, which having deeply eroded steep cliff banks eponymously gives ...

, Hell's Creek, Magby Creek, Mud Creek, Wilson Creek, and Yellow Creek.

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Rivers of Mississippi Rivers of Alabama Tributaries of the Tombigbee River Rivers of Lamar County, Alabama Rivers of Marion County, Alabama Rivers of Fayette County, Alabama Rivers of Pickens County, Alabama Rivers of Monroe County, Mississippi Rivers of Lowndes County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{Alabama-river-stub

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