What is Yazoo River?
[[Image:Mississippi Yazoo Delta.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yazoo River Basin]] The '''Yazoo River''' is a [[river]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]]. It is thought by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the [[Mississippi Delta]], which was cultivated for cotton plantations before the [[American Civil War]]. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDDbANUdH5sC&dq=yazoo+river+of+death&pg=PA657 Johnson's (revised) ''Universal Cyclopaedia.'' 1886.]</ref> The river is 188 miles (303&nbsp;km) long and is formed by the [[confluence]] of the [[Tallahatchie River|Tallahatchie]] and the [[Yalobusha River|Yalobusha]] rivers. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/Yazoo.htm Yazoo Basin - Engineering Geology Mapping Program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004064551/http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/Yazoo.htm |date=2018-10-04 }} PDF files of publications about and maps of the geology of the Yazoo River region. [[Category:Rivers of Mississippi]] {{US-geo-stub}}