---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 23"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "23"
heading: "Bear Creek, Mississippi"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/23"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name"
---

# §23. Bear Creek, Mississippi


Bear Creek in Humphreys, Leflore, and Sunflower Counties, in the State of Mississippi, is declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

The right of Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1923, ch. 229, §§ 1, 2, 42 Stat. 1442.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

The first sentence hereof is section 1 and the last sentence section 2 of act Mar. 3, 1923, entitled “An Act declaring Bear Creek in Humphreys, Leflore, and Sunflower counties, Mississippi, to be a nonnavigable stream”.