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The Redwater River is a tributary of the
Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...
, approximately 110 mi (177 km), in eastern
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in the
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. It rises in on the northern slope of the Big Sheep Mountains, in northwestern Prairie County, and flows northeast across the plains past Brockway and
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and joins the Missouri in northeastern McCone County, approximately 4 mi (6 km) south of Poplar.


Variant names

The Redwater River has also been known as: Red Water Creek, Red Water River, Redwater Creek, Two Thousand Mile Creek, Two-Thousand-Mile Creek


See also

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List of rivers of Montana The following is a partial list of rivers of Montana (U.S. state). East of Continental Divide Water in these rivers flows east and south from the Continental Divide of the Americas, also known as the Great Divide, into the Gulf of Mexico via t ...
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Montana Stream Access Law The Montana Stream Access Law says that angling, anglers, Canoeing, floaters and other recreationists in Montana have full use of most natural waterways between the high-water marks for fishing and floating, along with human swimming, swimming an ...


Notes

Rivers of Montana Tributaries of the Missouri River Bodies of water of McCone County, Montana Bodies of water of Dawson County, Montana Bodies of water of Prairie County, Montana Bodies of water of Richland County, Montana {{Montana-river-stub