Tchula Lake is a creek 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 ...

. Despite its name, Tchula Lake is classified by the GNIS as 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 ...

rather than a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

. It is a tributary to the

Yazoo River The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the ...

. ''Tchula'' is a name derived from the Choctaw language purported to mean "fox". Variant names are "Little River" and "Tchula River".

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Rivers of Mississippi Bodies of water of Holmes County, Mississippi Bodies of water of Humphreys County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{Mississippi-river-stub