Sims Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
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accessed June 20, 2011 tributary of the

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in the 8th

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. It flows generally southeast from near

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, and is joined about halfway down its course by its longest tributary, P-Kaw-Shun Creek, which begins north of Lorraine and flows southwest, passing under

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and

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, to its confluence with Sims Creek. The main creek then continues southwest, passing under LA 445, and meets the Tangipahoa River south of Robert. The creek is part of the

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Basin and thus sensitive to its ecology. In 2007, the

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of Louisiana issued a

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that a private fence could not lawfully be constructed across Sims Creek, because of its importance to public drainage.

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