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Tombigbee River

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Originating in Mississippi, the Tombigbee River enters Alabama at Aliceville Lake in Pickens County. From there it flows to the southeast and joins forces with the Black Warrior River, its largest tributary. The upper portion of the Tombigbee Basin encompasses about 9,000 square miles. Below the confluence with the Black Warrior River, near Demopolis, Alabama, is the lower portion of the basin. Here the flows 175 miles and drains 4,659 square miles in seven Alabama counties before the Tombigbee merges with the Alabama River and becomes the Mobile River. During the construction of the Tenn-Tom waterway the federal government bought 13,000 acres along the waterway for recreation and wildlife management. The Corps constructed seven campgrounds with 750 campsites, and operates 40 boating ramps. Four of the ramps are in Mississippi�s Itawamba County. The Corps estimates the waterway has three million visitor days per year. The visitors spin off $200 million in economic activity. (Tombigbee Country) .Many travelers live on their boats on the river year round. REFUGES - The Choctaw National Wildlife Reguge, located in Choctaw County in southwest Alabama, lies eighty miles north of Mobile on the west bank of the Tombigbee River. The refuge boundary starts two river miles upstream from the Coffeeville Lock & Dam. The relatively small 4,218 acre refuge is separated into three land masses by two creeks. Okaktuppa Creek divides the North End from the Middle Swamp and Turkey Creek separates the Middle Swamp from the South End.

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The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 400 mi (650 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of two major rivers, along with the Alabama River, that unite to form the short Mobile River before it empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The Tombigbee watershed encompasses much of the rural coastal plain of western Alabama and northeastern Mississippi, flowing generally southward. The river provides one of the principal routes of commercial navigation in the southern United States, navigable along much of its length through locks and connected in its upper reaches to the Tennessee River via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombigbee River

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