Vicksburg District. Story continues below gallery. The mainline Mississippi River levee and Yazoo backwater levee combined with the closed gates at the Steele Bayou Control Structure and the ...

IN THIS SECTION OF THE RIVER. THAT HAS BEEN A BIG CHALLENGE LATELY. AT THE MOUTH OF THE YAZOO DIVERSION CANAL ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN VICKSBURG. THE US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS DREDGE JADWIN WAS ...

The Yazoo River joined the Mississippi well upstream of Vicksburg. As any good hydrologist knows, however, rivers are fickle and go where they want to. The Mississippi River cut through the neck ...

Some of the worst flooding in Mississippi is in the area from Vicksburg northeast to Yazoo City, along the Yazoo River. May 18: Ed Jordan talks about the 40 percent of farmland his family has ...

The way was now open toward both Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and Chattanooga—the gap ... a swampy area between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The Confederates held strong defensive ...

It's a name that's close to the heart for owner Linus Hall: He and his wife, Lila, grew up in Vicksburg, Miss., where the Yazoo River joins the Mississippi River. He also had a black Labrador ...

Big Sunflower River, which flows for 250 miles in west Mississippi and provides some of the richest wetlands in the nation, has been named America's Most Endangered River of 2018. American ...

Vicksburg continues its festivities with ... Then, on July 5, visit the Yazoo River and Mississippi River Canal to watch the Dragon Boat Races. Prepare for an afternoon full of colorful boats ...

Wolf Lake will reopen for fishing and boating. According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP), Wolf Lake will reopen at 6:00 ...

Mississippi’s brief 10-day alligator season opened at noon Friday. So at 12:05 p.m. Megan Sasser and her five crew mates launched their 21-foot War Eagle skiff into the Yazoo River near Vicksburg. The ...