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Coordinates: 33.8°N 90.4°W. Mississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States. The river delta is a three-million-acre (4,700 sq mi; 12,000 km 2 ) area of land that stretches from Vermilion Bay on the west, to the Chandeleur Islands in the east, on Louisiana's southeastern coast. [1]
Location: Mississippi, United States: Nearest city: Vicksburg, MS: Coordinates: Area: 60,898 acres (246.45 km 2) Established: January 12, 1961: Governing body: U.S. Forest Service: Website: National Forests in Mississippi
The Mississippi River is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mississippi River Delta and Sediment Plume. The Mississippi River Delta was created from thousands of years of sand, clay and organic material being deposited by the Mississippi River into the northern parts of the Gulf of Mexico. The delta is home to massive amounts of wildlife, and attributed to the U.S. success as a superpower because of the ...
Delta State University is located on 332 acres (1.34 km 2) at 1003 W Sunflower Rd (Highway 8 West), in the northwest area of Cleveland, MS, 38733. About 30 percent of students reside in on-campus housing. Delta State provides both men's dormitories and women's dormitories, as well as apartments for married students.
Coordinates: 34°N 91°W. Mississippi Delta. Mississippi River Delta. Mississippi embayment. Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal. The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is an alluvial plain created by the Mississippi River on which lie parts of seven U.S. states, from southern Louisiana to southern Illinois (Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky ...
Map of the Mississippi Delta Region (outlined in green) Mississippi is bordered to the north by Tennessee, to the east by Alabama, to the south by Louisiana and a narrow coast on the Gulf of Mexico; and to the west, across the Mississippi River, by Louisiana and Arkansas .
Greenville Mid-Delta Airport ( IATA: GLH [2], ICAO: KGLH, FAA LID: GLH ), operating as Mid Delta Regional Airport until 2011, [3] [4] is a public use airport in unincorporated Washington County, Mississippi, United States. [5] It is located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) northeast of the central business district of Greenville, the city that ...
While the Arkansas Delta shares many geographic similarities with the Mississippi Delta, it is distinguished by its five unique sub-regions: the St. Francis Basin, Crowley's Ridge, the White River Lowlands, the Grand Prairie and the Arkansas River Lowlands (also called "the Delta Lowlands").