Tuckabum Creek

Tuckabum Creek is a stream in the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi.[1]

Tuckabum is a name derived from the Choctaw language purported to mean either (sources vary) "first" or "stream bed", but the meaning can not be known with certainty.[2] Variant names are "Tickabum Creek", "Tuckabunne Creek", "Tuckaburne Creek", and "Tuckalum Creek".[1]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tuckabum Creek
  2. Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.


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