L'Aigle Creek

The L'Aigle Creek connects to the Saline River (Ouachita River) at Coordinates: 33°11′38″N 92°8′14″W / 33.19389°N 92.13722°W / 33.19389; -92.13722Coordinates: 33°11′38″N 92°8′14″W / 33.19389°N 92.13722°W / 33.19389; -92.13722.[1][2] The watershed of this creek drains the majority of Bradley County, Arkansas.[3] L'Aigle is derived from French meaning "the eagle".[4]

The L'Aigle Creek is 44.2 miles long.[5] [6]

French, German, Estonian names of creeks, lakes, river landings and places

  • L'Aigles Creek, Aigle "Eagle Creek", Eagle Lake.
  • Bogalusa. A place on the Saline River near the Ouachita River (a different place with the same name is Bogalusa, Louisiana).
  • Charivari Creek, south of Hilo (a French folk custom in which the community gave a noisy, discordant mock serenade, also pounding on pots and pans, at the home of newlyweds. )
  • Felsenthal a Germanic word meaning "hills and valleys" or "rocky valleys." The Mississippi embayment left the Ouachita River flows to the east, southeast until it turned south near Felsenthal.
  • Moreau Bayou de Moreau (or Moro Creek, Moro Bay) Moreau is a French surname.
  • Pereogeethe Lake. Pereo (Latin: Disappearance, death, loss.) Geethe (Estonian: presently a female name)

References

  1. ↑ http://wikimapia.org/19395618/Confluence-L-Aigle-Ck-Saline-River Confluence L'Aigle Creek to the Saline River, in Arkansas.
  2. ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B011'38.0%22N+92%C2%B008'14.0%22W/@33.3777112,-92.1529721,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 Google Maps
  3. ↑ http://watersheds.cast.uark.edu/pdf_files/lulc_chng/CSize/0804020406_LULC_Change_CSize.pdf Univ. of Arkansas, L'Agile Creek, map
  4. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Government Printing Office. p. 179.
  5. ↑ http://oaspub.epa.gov/tmdl/attains_waterbody.control?p_list_id=&p_au_id=AR-2C-8040204-007-44.2&p_cycle=2004&p_state=AR&p_report_type=A EPA: Waterbody Report for L'Aigle Creek
  6. ↑ http://www.fws.gov/southeast/planning/PDFdocuments/FelsenthalOverflowDraft/FelsenthalOverflow%20Draft%20CCP%20EA%20Formatted.pdf U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, Atlanta, Georgia FELSENTHAL AND OVERFLOW NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES


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