Talk:Tallahatchie River

'Fictional'

I removed the word 'fictional' from the following sentence: 'Though best known from the (fictional) song "Ode to Billie Joe" and movie...' The song itself is not fictional, though the story told in the song may be fictional, so the sentence was incorrect as written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.15.7.70 (talk) 19:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

'Till Incident'

I removed the following statement from the 'Crybaby Bridge' section of the article:

"The Till incident occurred in South Mississippi (in the Pearl River, I believe), not in the Tallahatchie of song and movie fame which is in North Mississippi."

Emmitt Till was killed in Money, MS (in North Mississippi) and his body was dumped into the Tallahatchie River. The reverted statement was incorrect and probably was intended for the talk page and not the article itself. Nolanbuc (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC).

Map of the river's course?

If anyone is out there who knows this river's course and has software to make a map graphic showing it, could you add it please? --Bark (talk) 14:44, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Finding a map should have been the first order of business creating this page. It's like reading an article about how a sunset looks. A 'photo' would be much better, and so would a map. Duh? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.73.91.132 (talk) 18:29, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

A civil war map is the best I can do. The US Army Corps of Engineers will have a map in their documents when they designed the dams. Church of the Rain (talk) 02:51, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

The USGS national map is very useful especially for hydrology. See http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ Church of the Rain (talk) 23:54, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Depth

Can someone clarify the sentence " a flood on the normally shallow river. The river is 50 feet deep". A 50 foot deep river is not shallow. Was it 50 feet deep when flooded? If so, what was its normal depth?Royalcourtier (talk) 22:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Length

Edits were recently reverted which gave the length of the Tallahatchie River as 230 miles giving Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. 3rd ed. (1997) p. 1155 as a source. The same source states the river is navigable 'for about 100 miles'. The current version of the article gives the length as 85 miles. Please give the citation. Methinks the current length might really be the navigable length instead of the length to the source of the stream. As to the accuracy for my figure- the Merriam-Webster publications are known industry standards.

The tributaries and associated waterways or canals were also reverted. The source for this expanded information are general state highway maps which are reliable. The Connecticut River lists this type of information as well as many other topics. My purpose is to make these Mississippi rivers full articles and demonstrate their character with other sections. However, we need to nail down the length firstly and then expand to the tributaries, alterations, cultural sites, & c. Church of the Rain (talk) 05:38, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

• I had missed the edit in question, which strikes me as an overly broad deletion of useful content, so thank you for raising the issue here. I think the editor's replacement of a length cited to a gazetteer (the Merriam-Webster Geographical Dictionary) with an uncited figure should be undone. If discrepant figures have appeared in other published sources, that matter can be discussed on the talk page or included with an explanation in the article. (I think the unattributed 85 mile figure should be cut, pending an identification of a source for it.) A list of significant bodies of water in the river's watershed is appropriate to the article (though I might be inclined to list them in columns) and I don't think it should have been wholly deleted. I'm uncertain about the Civil War material, but I think it could remain if its relevance to the river can be clarified in the text. --TimK MSI (talk) 16:06, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Frank E. Smith, a former Miss. Congressman and TVA official, in the 1954 title The Yazoo River deals with Tallahatchie River's length in stating "The Tallahatchie has already curved 190 miles through the hills as the 'Little Tallahatchie' and is big enough to dominate at the merger and give its name to the new stream. The Tallahatchie moves south 111 miles through Delta land before it is joined by the Yalobusha..." The Frank Smith length then, is 301 miles as opposed to the 230 miles in the gazetteer. Perhaps more can be said about separating the Tallahatchie River from the its tributary the "Little Tallahatchie River" as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have done here. I prefer to present the river as a whole using the more modest length from the gazetteer. Church of the Rain (talk) 03:16, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

That sounds good to me. TimK MSI (talk) 16:51, 26 December 2015 (UTC)