Loosahatchie River

The Loosahatchie River in Arlington, Tennessee

The Loosahatchie River is a 103 km long tributary of the Mississippi River in southwestern Tennessee. Except for a few miles near the mouth, in its headwaters and middle reaches of the river and its tributaries has been greatly straightened to serve the irrigation agriculture. Its catchment area was once the center of extensive plantations of cotton, which were displaced by the strong urbanization in recent decades. The name of the river is partially redundant because hatchie means in several languages ​​of the Indians of the Southeast River.

Course

The Loosahatchie River rises in the west of Hardeman County and flows to its mouth roughly from east to west. The river reaches the Fayette County flows through Somerville and is west of the city in the only unbegradigten portion of its funds run crossed by Interstate 40 before it reaches the Shelby County. His mouth is slightly north of Frayser, a suburb of Memphis, where united north of the mouth of the Wolf River with the Mississippi River at Mud Iceland. Just below this estuary is located in the main arm of the river named after the Loosahatchie River shoal Loosahatchie bar

Hydrology

The United States Geological Survey operates at Arlington since 1969, a level ( Reference: 07,030,240, geographical coordinates: 35 ° 18 ' 39 " N, 89 ° 38' 22" W35.310863888889 - 89.639480555556 ). The catchment area above this point covers an area of 678 km ². The runoff in the long-term average 1970-2011 is 11.2 m³ / s, the highest since runoff was here on May 2, 2010, 840 m³ / s listed. The lowest discharge rate of about 1.9 m³ on 6 April 1974.