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Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana)

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Stream in Montana
Dry Cottonwood Creek
Location
LocationDeer Lodge County, Montana
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates46°12′39″N 112°39′01″W / 46.21083°N 112.65028°W / 46.21083; -112.65028 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)
Mouth 
 • coordinates46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)
 • elevation4,705 feet (1,434 m)
Basin features
River systemColumbia River

Dry Cottonwood Creek is a creek in Deer Lodge County, Montana. Approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, it flows northwest out of the southern reaches of the Boulder Mountains into the Clark Fork river near Deer Lodge, Montana. Sapphires are found along this creek.

Notes

  1. "Dry Cottonwood Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Voynick, Stephen M. (1985). Yogo The Great American Sapphire (March 1995 printing, 1987 ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-87842-217-X.
Municipalities and communities of Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States
County seat: Anaconda
City
Deer Lodge County map
Unincorporated
communities
Ghost town
Footnotes‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties



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