Square Butte Creek is a stream in the
U.S. state of
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
.
The creek was so named on account of square-shaped buttes along its course.
The creek (USGS GNIS ID: 1032261) is a tributary of the
Missouri River, partially draining into the river as a diversion canal northeast of the community of
Harmon (46.965521, -100.938544) before turning south to southeast with the mouth north of
Mandan
The Mandan are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. About half of the Mandan still res ...
(46.9049927, -100.9131891) in the community of Rock Haven.
See also
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List of rivers of North Dakota
References
Rivers of Morton County, North Dakota
Rivers of Oliver County, North Dakota
Rivers of North Dakota
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