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Hell Roaring Creek is a fast-running creek in southern
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 Columbi ...
. The creek flows from
Brower's Spring Brower's Spring is a spring in the Centennial Mountains of Beaverhead County, Montana that was marked by a surveyor in 1888 as the ultimate headwaters of the Missouri River and thus the fourth longest river in the world, the Mississippi-Missour ...
, which is considered the ultimate
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of the Missouri River.Demetriades , Anthony (July/August 2005
"The True Utmost Reaches of the Missouri"
''Montana Outdoors''
Hell Roaring Creek is the most distant point in the
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 f ...
system and, combined with its downstream rivers, marks the starting point of the fourth longest river in the world.


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Rivers of Montana Missouri River Tributaries of the Missouri River Tributaries of the Beaverhead River {{BeaverheadCountyMT-geo-stub