Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana)

Dry Cottonwood Creek
Basin
River system Columbia River
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 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]
4,705 feet (1,434 m)
Location Deer Lodge County, Montana

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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