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river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

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Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

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East of Continental Divide

Water in these rivers flows east and south from the

Continental Divide of the Americas The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; ) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from t ...

, also known as the Great Divide, into the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United ...

via the

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

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Mississippi river The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...

Missouri River watershed

* Missouri River **

Jefferson River The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Montana. The Jefferson River and the Madison River form the official beginning of the Missouri at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three F ...

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Beaverhead River The Beaverhead River is an approximately tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana (east of the Continental Divide). It drains an area of roughly . The river's original headwaters, formed by the confluence of the Red Rock River and H ...

**** Blacktail Deer Creek ****

Ruby River The Ruby River is a tributary of the Beaverhead River, approximately 76 mi (122 km) long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in southwestern Madison County between the Snowcres ...

**** Red Rock River ***

Big Hole River The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately long, in Beaverhead County, in southwestern Montana, United States. It is the last habitat in the contiguous United States for native fluvial Arctic grayling and is ...

**** Wise River *** Boulder River ** Roe River (one of the shortest rivers in the world) **

Madison River The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana forms the Missouri River. Th ...

Gallatin River The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 120 mi (193 km long), in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana. It is one of three rivers, along with the Jefferson and Madison, that converge near Three Forks ...

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East Gallatin River The East Gallatin River flows in a northwesterly direction through the Gallatin valley, Gallatin County, Montana. Rising from the confluence of Rocky Creek and several other small streams, the East Gallatin begins about one mile (1.6 km) eas ...

** Sixteen Mile Creek ** Dearborn River ** Smith River ** Sun River ** Belt Creek **

Marias River The Marias River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 210 mi (338 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is formed in Glacier County, in northwestern Montana, by the confluence of the Cut Bank Creek and the Two Med ...

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Cut Bank Creek The Cut Bank Creek is a tributary of the Marias River in the Missouri river basin watershed, approximately 75 mi (123 km) long, in northwestern Montana in the United States, which having deeply eroded steep cliff banks eponymously gives ...

*** Two Medicine River **** Birch Creek ***** Dupuyer Creek *** Teton River *** Cottonwood Creek (Liberty County, Montana) ** Arrow Creek ** Cow Creek ** Birch Creek ** Judith River *** Dry Wolf Creek (Judith Basin County, Montana) *** Dry Wolf Creek (Fergus County, Montana) ** Musselshell River *** Sacagawea River *** North Fork Musselshell River *** South Fork Musselshell River ** Milk River *** Big Sandy Creek *** Frenchman River ** Redwater River ** Poplar River ** Big Muddy Creek ** Little Muddy Creek ** Yellowstone River ***

Gardner River The Gardner River (also known as the Gardiner River) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately long, in northwestern Wyoming and south central Montana in the United States. The entire river is located within Yellowstone National P ...

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DePuy Spring Creek DePuy Spring Creek is a three mile long trout fishery located between the Absaroka and Gallatin mountain ranges in Paradise Valley, south of Livingston, Montana. The creek is a small tributary of the Yellowstone River. This fishery supports a p ...

*** Shields River *** Boulder River ***

Sweet Grass Creek Sweet Grass Creek is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in south central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Gallatin National Forest, in the Crazy Mountains in eastern Park County. It ...

*** Stillwater River *** Clarks Fork Yellowstone River ***

Bighorn River The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately long, in the states of Wyoming and Montana in the western United States. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the bighorn sheep he saw along its ba ...

**** Beauvais Creek **** Big Bull Elk Creek **** Black Canyon Creek **** Dry Head Creek **** Grapevine Creek **** Little Bighorn River ***** Alligator Creek ***** Lodge Grass Creek ***** Pass Creek ***** Reno Creek ***** Shoulder Blade Creek ***** West Fork Little Bighorn River **** Little Bull Elk Creek **** Rotten Grass Creek **** Soap Creek **** War Man Creek **** Woody Creek *** Tongue River **** Pumpkin Creek *** Powder River **** Little Powder River ***** East Fork Little Powder River **** Crow Creek **** Timber Creek **** Spring Creek **** Ash Creek **** Mizpah Creek ****

Sheep Creek Sheep Creek is a geographical place name. With variations, the name is given to hundreds of bodies of water, roads, canals, reservoirs and populated areas in the United States and other countries. It is the name of a tributary to Lockyear Creek in ...

**** Locate Creek *** O'Fallon Creek *** Cabin Creek ** Little Missouri River ***Thompson Creek

Laurentian Divide

Waters in these rivers flow north and east from the

Laurentian Divide The Laurentian Divide also called the Northern Divide and locally the ''height of land'', is a continental divide in central North America that separates the Hudson Bay watershed to the north from the Gulf of Mexico watershed to the south and the ...

into Hudson Bay, a tributary of the

Arctic ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...

, via the

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

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Nelson river The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs before it ends in Hudson Bay. Its full length (including the Saskatchewan River and Bow River) is , i ...

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Belly River Belly River is a river in northwest Montana, United States and southern Alberta, Canada. It is a tributary of the Oldman River, itself a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River. The name of the river may come from the Blackfoot word of , mean ...

* St. Mary River * Waterton River

West of Continental Divide

Water in these rivers flow west from the Continental Divide of the Americas into the

Pacific ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...

via the Columbia river. * Clark Fork River ** Bull River **

Thompson River The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The ri ...

*** Little Thompson River ** Vermilion River *** Queer Creek **

Flathead River The Flathead River ( fla, label= Salish, člq̓etkʷ ntx̣ʷetkʷ, , kut, kananmituk), in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Fla ...

*** Jocko River ***

Little Bitterroot River Little Bitterroot River is in northwestern Montana. It in the mountains west of Kalispell north of Marion or about west-northwest of Flathead Lake. It flows south-southeastward for to the Flathead River, which goes into the Clark Fork of the C ...

*** Spotted Bear River *** White River *** Whitefish River **** Stillwater River ** St. Regis River ** Bitterroot River ** Blackfoot River **

Little Blackfoot River The Little Blackfoot River is a long tributary of the Clark Fork River, located in Powell County, Montana in the state of Montana in the United States. Location and flows The Little Blackfoot River is located in Powell County, Montana. The rive ...

* Kootenai River ** Yaak River ** Fisher River ** Ninemile Creek ** Tobacco River ** Wigwam River * Swan River

Multiple streams with same name

* Willow Creek, there are 45 streams named Willow Creek in Montana

External links

Montana Streamflow Data from the USGSMontana Watershed Data From Environmental Protection AgencyMontana River ActionNational River Management Organization
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