The Vigil Network: Toby Tubby Creek
Site Summary
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General Information
Site Name: Toby Tubby Creek
Location: La Fayette County, Mississippi USA
Principal Investigator: S.C. Happ, Gordon Rittenhouse
Address: U.S.D.A. Sedimentation Lab, Oxford, Mississippi USA
Date of Site Establishment and/or Field Measurements: 1937, 1965
Original Date of Submission to the Vigil Network: Unknown
Location at Lower End of Basin
Latitude: 34°29'00" N
Longitude: 89°40'00" W
Purposes
(ranked in order of importance)
- Sedimentation
- Channel Change
- Erosion
Site Information
Annual precipitation: 1370 mm
Elevation: 71.6 m
Relief: 61.0 m
Drainage area: 145 km2
Geology: Coastal plain sand and clay; Surficial loess.
Hydrology: +/- 500 mm runoff
Vegetation: Hardwoods, Pine Plantings, Farmlands
Photography: High altitude aerial
U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute maps: Oxford North, MISS; Coles Point, MISS
Stream Channels
Channel cross sections: 16
Miscellaneous
Other: Valley Sections: 50
Additional Data
Additional data collected but not submitted with this file: Sheet of valley cross-sections filed in MA-1410.
For information on how to obtain USGS topographic maps of this study site, please visit the USGS Maps, Imagery and Publicatinos page at http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/.
