Deer Creek (also Issaquena Creek or Lower Deer Creek) is a creek in Mississippi, United States. Its source is Lake Bolivar, in Scott, Bolivar County, Mississippi.
Course
As Deer Creek flows south through the Mississippi Delta, it passes through the following counties: Bolivar, Washington, Sharkey, Issaquena, and Warren; and through the following communities: Metcalfe, Stoneville, Leland, Burdett, Arcola, Hollandale, Panther Burn, Nitta Yuma, Anguilla, Rolling Fork, Cary, Onward, and Valley Park.
Prior to the Civil War the stream was navigable and accessible to the Mississippi River at Lake Bolivar.Mrs. Henry Vick Phelps (Dorothy Cole) and Henry Vick Phelps II. (1974). Nitta Yuma King Cotton. Nitta Yuma, Ms: D.C. Phelps. p. 22 f. The Deer Creek watershed is connected to the Big Sunflower River via the Rolling Fork Creek, a connection that occurs only at high water stages and can flow either way.Golden, Harold G. (1960). Bulletin 60-2 "Low-flow characteristics Sunflower Basin, Mississippi." Jackson: U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Mississippi Board of Water Commissioners. p. 4.
During the Civil War, a battery of field guns was shipped up the stream to be carried to positions on the Mississippi River at "Greenville Bends" to fire on the U.S. Navy.Doyle, Daniel R. “The Civil War in the Greenville Bends.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly., vol. 70, no. 2, 2011, pp. 131–61. JSTOR website Retrieved 10 July 2023.
Name Deer Creek's name is an accurate preservation of its native Choctaw name isi okhina, meaning "deer river".
Muddy Waters nickname Muddy Waters got his nickname "Muddy Waters" by playing in the river.
See also List of rivers of Mississippi
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