The Vigil Network Site Index: Beartail Creek

General Information

Site Name: Beartail Creek
Location: Tate County, Mississippi USA
Principal Investigator: S.C. Happ and Richard D. Holt
Address: U.S.D.A. Sedimentation Lab, Oxford, Mississippi USA
Date of Site Establishment and/or Field Measurements: 1940
Original Date of Submission to the Vigil Network: 3 August 1970
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Location at Lower End of Basin

Latitude: 34°43'50" N
Longitude: 89°55'15" W
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Purposes

(ranked in order of importance)

1. Sedimentation
2. Channel Change
3. Erosion

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Site Information

Annual precipitation: 1320 mm
Elevation: 73 m
Relief: 49 m
Drainage area: 93.2 km²
Geology: Coastal Plain Sand and Clay; Surficial Loess
Hydrology: Runoff +/- 500 mm
Vegetation: Farmlands intermixed with Hardwoods
Photography: High altitude aerial
U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute maps: Coldwater, MISS; Independence, MISS; Lewisbury, MISS
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Stream Channels

Channel cross sections: 9
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Miscellaneous

Reservoir sedimentation: 2
Other: Valley Sections - 9.
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Links to Data Files

• Description of Envelope Contents
• Description of Range BT-1
• Description of Range BT-2
• Description of Range BT-3
• Description of Range BT-4
• Description of Range BT-5
• Description of Range LBT-1
• Description of Range LBT-2
• Description of Range LBT-T-1
• Description of Range BM-1
• Map of Watershed (50 KB)

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For information on how to obtain USGS topographic maps of this study site, please visit the USGS National Mapping Information Page at http://mapping.usgs.gov.

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