Eagle Bend, MS

Eagle Bend is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Warren County, Mississippi. Eagle Bend is approximately 31 miles northwest of downtown Vicksburg, and is part of the Vicksburg Micropolitan Statistical Area. Eagle Bend began as a postal hamlet located directly on the Mississippi River. A newcomer can read Eagle Bend through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Eagle Bend comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. In 1866, the river changed its course and created a natural cutoff called "Terrapin Neck". The former bend in the river soon silted up at either end, creating Eagle Lake, an oxbow lake. Eagle Bend's downtown is part of the local map.