Pinishook Creek

Pinishook Creek is a stream in Neshoba and Winston counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi.[1] It is a tributary to the Pearl River.[2]

Pinishook is a name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "linden or basswood tree".[3]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pinishook Creek
  2. Philadelphia, MS, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1972 (1982 rev.)
  3. Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.



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