Big Hill Pond State Park is a state park in the southwestern part of McNairy County in southwestern Tennessee. State Park is a term used in the United States and in Mexico for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty historic interest recreation or other McNairy County is a County located in the US state of Tennessee. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States.
The park has an area of approximately 5,000 acres (20 km²) and is forested with timberland and hardwood bottomland. The term hardwood is used to describe Wood from broad-leaved angiosperm Trees mostly Deciduous, but not necessarily in the case of tropical Cypress Creek and the Tuscumbia River border the property. The Tuscumbia River rises in Prentiss County Mississippi, near Booneville. The park's central feature is 35-acre Big Hill Pond. The pond was formed by excavation in 1953 as a borrow pit that was a source for soil used to build a levee across the Tuscumbia and Cypress Creek bottoms for the Memphis to Charleston Railroad. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dike (constructionEmbankmentA levee, levée, dike (or dyke) embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial In addition, the floodplains of the Tuscumbia River and Cypress Creek contain small oxbow lakes and sloughs that provide desirable habitat for waterfowl, other wildlife, and fish. ||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||}A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a Stream or River that experiences occasional or periodic An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake water body formed when a wide Meander from the mainstem of a River is cut off to create a lake The word slough (in British English ˈslaʊ to rhyme with "cow" in American and Canadian English pronounced /ˈsluː/ "slew" has A large stand of cypress trees has grown up in and around Big Hill Pond, which is accessible by four-wheel-drive vehicles. Taxodium is a Genus of one to three Species (depending on taxonomic opinion of extremely flood-tolerant Conifers in the cypress Four-wheel drive, 4WD, or 4x4 ("four by four" is a four-wheeled Vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four Wheels to
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