Rosebud Creek is a generally north flowing stream in
Rosebud and
Big Horn counties of
Montana
Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...
. It is a tributary to the
Yellowstone River
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountain ...
.
The source is the confluence of the North and South forks about one mile east of the
Crow Indian Reservation boundary. The two forks both flow east from the east flank of the
Wolf Mountains.
The confluence with the Yellowstone River is about 1.5 miles west of the community of
Rosebud.
Monument Hill, the site of the
Rosebud Battlefield lies about one mile north of the source area of the stream.
[''Half Moon Hill,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1978 rev.)]
The site is currently the location of the
Rosebud Battlefield State Park.
References
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Tributaries of the Yellowstone River
Rivers of Big Horn County, Montana
Rivers of Rosebud County, Montana