Noxapater 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 of

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 ...

. The origin of the name ''Noxapater'' is unclear. The name supposedly is derived from the Choctaw language, and depending on source is purported to mean "little bullets" or "wide stream". Variant names are "Noxubee Creek" and "Noxupata Creek".

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Rivers of Mississippi Rivers of Neshoba County, Mississippi Rivers of Winston County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{Mississippi-river-stub