The Vigil Network Site Index: Lee Creek

General Information

Site Name: Lee Creek
Location: La Fayette 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: 1931
Original Date of Submission to the Vigil Network: 24 July 1970
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Location at Lower End of Basin

Latitude: 34°31'00" N
Longitude: 89°29'00" 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: 1340 mm
Elevation: 84 m
Relief: 99 m
Drainage area: 49.2 km²
Geology: Coastal Plain Sand and Clay; Surficial Loess
Hydrology: Runoff +/- 500 mm
Vegetation: Mixed Hardwoods and Farmlands
Photography: High altitude aerial
U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute maps: Bagley Lake, MISS; Malone, MISS
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Stream Channels

Channel cross sections: 7
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Miscellaneous

Other: Valley Sections - 7
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Links to Data Files

• Description of Envelope Contents
• Map of Watershed and Sedimentation Ranges (58 KB)
• Description of Range F-1
• Description of Range F-2
• Description of Range F-3
• Description of Range F-4
• Description of Range F-5
• Description of Range F-6
• Description of Range F-A-1

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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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