Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana)

Dry Cottonwood Creek
Location Deer Lodge County, Montana
Basin
Main source 46°12′39″N 112°39′01″W / 46.21083°N 112.65028°W / 46.21083; -112.65028
River mouth 4,705 feet (1,434 m)
46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083Coordinates: 46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083[1]
River system Columbia 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.[2]

Notes

  1. "Dry Cottonwood Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  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.


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