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Bay Springs Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is impounded by the Jamie Whitten Lock and Dam . The lake is approximately 9 miles (14 km) long, between waterway mile markers 412 at the dam, and 421 near the entrance to the divide cut .
The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada. It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. [1]
The Big Bay embankment, which is largely intact, is approximately 1890 feet long and 51.3 feet high. The failure occurred with an initial water surface about 6 inches (0.15 m) above the normal pool elevation of 278.0 ft (84.73 m), releasing 14,200 ac-ft (17,500,000 m 3 ) of water and inundating 14.3 miles (23.0 km) of valley to depths of up to ...
Big Bay State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, United States, on Madeline Island, the largest of 22 Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. [1] The 2,350-acre (951 ha) park has picturesque sandstone bluffs and caves and a 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) sand beach. It encloses unique habitat types including lakeside dunes, sphagnum bogs, and old-growth forest.
Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge is an 11,047-acre (45 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Mississippi County, Arkansas, managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Manila, Arkansas , and consists mostly of a shallow lake, swamp, and bottomland hardwood forests.
Bay Springs is a city in and the western county seat of Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,670 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 1,786 at the 2010 census. [4] State highways 15 and 18 intersect at the city. It is part of the Laurel, Mississippi (in Jones County) micropolitan area.
Mississippi Highway 528 (MS 528) is a state highway in Jasper County, Mississippi. It is 23.7 miles (38.1 km) long and travels between Bay Springs at MS 15 to U.S. Route 11 (US 11) outside of Heidelberg. An interchange with Interstate 59 (I-59) is located along the highway within the town limits of Heidelberg.
Paul B. Johnson State Park is a public recreation area on the shores of Geiger Lake, located off U.S. Highway 49 in McLaurin, Mississippi, 12 miles (19 km) south of Hattiesburg. The state park is named after Paul B. Johnson , the forty-sixth governor of Mississippi .