The Tallahatchie River is a river in Mississippi which flows 230 miles (370 km)[1] from Tippah County, through Tallahatchie County, to Leflore County, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River,[2][3] which ultimately meets the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The river is navigable for about 100 miles (160 km).[4] At Money, Mississippi, the river's flow measures approximately 7,861 cubic feet per second.[5]
Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters."[6] The sources of the Tallahatchie River have outcrops of iron sandstone.[7]
As part of the Flood Control Act of 1936, the federal government built an earth-filled flood control dam on the Tallahatchie near the town of Sardis, Mississippi, creating Sardis Lake.
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