Wahalak Creek
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Wahalak 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 ...
. It is a tributary to the
Noxubee River 200px, right The Noxubee River (NAHKS-uh-bee) is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about long, in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama in the United States. Via the Tombigbee, it is part of the watershed of the Mobile River, whi ...
. ''Wahalak'' is a name derived from the Choctaw language purported to mean "to branch out, to spread, pronged". Variant names are "Wahorlock Creek", "Warloc Creek", and "Warloe Creek".


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Rivers of Mississippi Rivers of Kemper County, Mississippi Rivers of Noxubee County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{Mississippi-river-stub