Ouiska Chitto Creek is an 86.4 miles (139 km) spring-fed creek

Stream

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 located in Allen

Allen Parish, Louisiana

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, Beauregard

Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

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, and Vernon

Vernon Parish, Louisiana

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 parishes, Louisiana

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, in the United States

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. It is a tributary to the Calcasieu River

Calcasieu River

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. It is located between Mittie and Reeves, Louisiana

Reeves, Louisiana

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The creek is surrounded by a mixed pine-hardwood mid-growth forest and passes through low hills. Common wildlife around this creek are livestock, turkeys, deer, and raccoons. It contains largemouth bass, striped bass, spotted bass, and bream.

It passes through the Kisatchie National Forest

Kisatchie National Forest

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and serves as a landmark and common vacation spot for many locals to the region. It belongs to the Vernon Unit of the Calcasieu Ranger District. It is a designated "scenic waterway" by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared this stream a navigable stream of the United States in 2008.

The name was given by a native American tribe and later adopted by settlers, an anglicization of "Ouiska Chitto" ("Big Cane Creek"). The Choctaw words were uski for cane and chito for large. It is spelled Whisky Chitto Creek on federal maps.