Big Muddy Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 191 mi (307 km) long, in the

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and the

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. Its source is in the

Big Muddy Badlands The Big Muddy Badlands are a series of badlands in southern Saskatchewan and northern Montana in the Big Muddy Valley and along Big Muddy Creek. Big Muddy Valley is a cleft of erosion and sandstone that is long, wide, and deep. Big Muddy V ...

of Saskatchewan. Big Muddy Creek begins in southern Saskatchewan at Big Muddy Lake, east of

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. It flows south through the

and into

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, past Redstone. From there, east past Plentywood and then south forming the eastern border of

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. It joins the Missouri west of Culbertson. It was explored in 1805 by the

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, who called it Martha's River in their journals and noticed on their return voyage in 1806 that it had changed its mouth on the Missouri. Along with the Milk River and the Poplar River, it is one of three waterways in Canada that drain into the Gulf of Mexico.

Variant names

Big Muddy Creek has also been known as: Big Muddy River, Little Yellow River, Martha River, Martha's River, Marthas River, Marthy's River and Park River.

References

Rivers of Montana Rivers of Saskatchewan Tributaries of the Missouri River Bodies of water of Roosevelt County, Montana Bodies of water of Sheridan County, Montana Happy Valley No. 10, Saskatchewan {{Montana-river-stub

Variant names

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