Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana)

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