The Tchoutacabouffa River () is a river located in

Harrison County, Mississippi Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 208,621, making it the second-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named af ...

. The river's mouth is located just north of the city of

Biloxi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

at Biloxi Bay and south of present-day

Interstate 10 Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost cross-country highway in the American Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at , following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally pl ...

. Located at a latitude of 30.435 and longitude of -88.99222, it flows approximately south from its headwaters. ''Tchoutacabouffa'' is the Biloxi tribe's word for "broken pot." Southern Mississippi art potter George E. Ohr, who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, dug much of the clay he used for his works locally from the Tchoutacabouffa River. In 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey published the results of a two-dimensional analysis of flood flows at the State Highway 15/67 crossing of the Tchoutacabouffa River. The U.S. Geological Survey has maintained a record o
annual flood peaks
at D'Iberville, Miss., since 1998. TchoutacabouffaRiver1998

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

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