Delta (Miss. : Region)
- Here are entered works on the diamond-shaped alluvial plain in northwestern Mississippi which is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River and on the east by a line of bluffs extending southward from Memphis to Greenwood and then southwesterly along the Yazoo River until it meets the Mississippi at Vicksburg.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001124
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh91001124#concept
Variants
- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region)
- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region)
- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region)
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Federal Writers Project. Mississippi, 1938:pp. 3, 38 (Delta leaf shaped plain lying in northwestern part of state; Yazoo-Mississippi Delta: "The alluvial plain - a basin lying between the Mississippi River and the Yazoo River in the northwestern part of the state and colloqually called the Delta.")
- found: GNIS. Miss(locale 34⁰24ʹ16ʺN, 90⁰34ʹ20ʺW; ppl 34⁰25ʹ23ʺN, 90⁰07ʹ44ʺW)
- found: Brandfon, R. Cotton kingdom of the New South, 1976(Yazoo Mississippi Delta; Yazoo Delta; Delta)
- found: Mississippi. Board of Water Commission. Bulletin, 1977:77-1 ("the alluvial plain in the northwestern part of the state, commonly referred to as the 'Delta'."
- found: Dunvar, T. Delta time, 1990.
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Change Notes
- 1991-03-13: new
- 2000-06-13: revised
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