Okatibbee 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

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. Tributaries include Chickasawhay Creek,

Sowashee Creek Sowashee Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Tributaries include Nanabe Creek. Sowashee Creek is a tributary of Okatibbee Creek. ''Sowashee'' is a name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "raccoons are there". Variant name ...

, and Suqualena Creek. Okatibbee Creek joins the

Chunky River The Chunky River is a short tributary of the Chickasawhay River in east-central Mississippi. Via the Chickasawhay, it is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Course The river is formed between the t ...

to form 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 ...

Okatibbee Dam Okatibbee Dam is a dam in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. The earthen gravity dam was constructed in 1968 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers with a height of 72 feet and a length of 6620 at its crest. It impounds Okatibbee Creek for fl ...

on Okatibbee Creek impounds an reservoir, which was constructed in the 1960s for flood control. ''Okatibbee'' 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 "ice therein". Many variant names or transliterations exist, including "Chickasahay Creek", "Oak-tib-be Haw Creek", "Oakitabaha Creek", "Oakitibbeha River", "Oakitibbihaha Creek", "Oakitibiha Creek", "Oaktibbeehaw River", "Oaktibbeha Creek", "Octibaha Creek", "Octibbeha Creek", "Octibha Creek", "Oka Teebehaw Creek", "Okatibaha Creek", "Okatibahah Creek", "Okattbahah Creek", "Oketibbyhaw Creek", "Oktibbeha Creek", and "Oktibea Creek".

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