Strong River

The Strong River at the D'Lo Water Park in D'Lo, where the "Siren Scene" from O Brother, Where Art Thou? was filmed

The Strong River is a 95.2-mile-long (153.2 km) river in south-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

Course

The Strong River takes its name from the English translation of the Choctaw words boke or boge homi, which means "creek bitter" or "creek strong tasting". The name has nothing to do with the physical characteristics of the stream. It rises in the Bienville National Forest in Scott County, about 6 miles (10 km) west of Forest, and flows generally southwestwardly through Smith, Rankin and Simpson counties, past the town of D'Lo. It flows into the Pearl River 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Georgetown.

See also

• List of Mississippi rivers

References

• Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
• DeLorme (1998). Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-346-X.
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Strong River, retrieved 4 February 2006