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river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

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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 ...

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East of Continental Divide

Water in these rivers flows east and south from the

Continental Divide of the Americas The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; ) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from t ...

, also known as the Great Divide, into the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...

via the

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

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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 ...

Missouri River watershed

* Missouri River **

Jefferson River The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Montana. The Jefferson River and the Madison River form the official beginning of the Missouri at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three F ...

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Beaverhead River The Beaverhead River is an approximately tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana (east of the Continental Divide). It drains an area of roughly . The river's original headwaters, formed by the confluence of the Red Rock River and H ...

**** Blacktail Deer Creek ****

Ruby River The Ruby River is a tributary of the Beaverhead River, approximately 76 mi (122 km) long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in southwestern Madison County between the Snowcres ...

**** Red Rock River ***

Big Hole River The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately long, in Beaverhead County, in southwestern Montana, United States. It is the last habitat in the contiguous United States for native fluvial Arctic grayling and is ...

**** Wise River *** Boulder River **

Roe River The Roe River runs from Giant Springs to the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana, United States. The Roe River is only long at its longest constant point, and had been named as the World's Shortest River by the '' Guinness Book of World ...

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Madison River The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana forms the Missouri River. Th ...

Gallatin River The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 120 mi (193 km long), in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana. It is one of three rivers, along with the Jefferson River, Jefferson and Madison River, Madison, ...

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East Gallatin River The East Gallatin River flows in a northwesterly direction through the Gallatin valley, Gallatin County, Montana. Rising from the confluence of Rocky Creek and several other small streams, the East Gallatin begins about one mile (1.6 km) eas ...

** Sixteen Mile Creek **

Dearborn River The Dearborn River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, near Scapegoat Mountain in the Lewis and Clark Ran ...

** Smith River ** Sun River ** Belt Creek **

Marias River The Marias River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 210 mi (338 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is formed in Glacier County, in northwestern Montana, by the confluence of the Cut Bank Creek and the Two Med ...

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Cut Bank Creek The Cut Bank Creek is a tributary of the Marias River in the Missouri river basin watershed, approximately 75 mi (123 km) long, in northwestern Montana in the United States, which having deeply eroded steep cliff banks eponymously gives ...

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Two Medicine River The Two Medicine River is a tributary of the Marias River, approximately 60 mi (97 km) long, in northwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Rocky Mountain Front in Glacier National Park at the continental divide and f ...

**** Birch Creek *****

Dupuyer Creek Dupuyer Creek is a tributary of Birch Creek in northwestern Montana in the United States. It rises at the confluence of the South Fork, Middle Fork and North Fork in the Lewis and Clark National Forest east of the continental divide in northwes ...

*** Teton River *** Cottonwood Creek (Liberty County, Montana) ** Arrow Creek ** Cow Creek ** Birch Creek **

Judith River The Judith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 124 mi (200 km) long, running through central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Little Belt Mountains and flows northeast past Utica and Hobson. It is ...

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Dry Wolf Creek (Judith Basin County, Montana) Dry Wolf Creek is a tributary of the Judith River, approximately 40 mi (65 km) long, in central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, near Big Baldy in the Little Belt Mountains, in western Jud ...

*** Dry Wolf Creek (Fergus County, Montana) **

Musselshell River The Musselshell River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long from its origins at the confluence of its North and South Forks near Martinsdale, Montana to its mouth on the Missouri River. It is located east of the Continental divide entir ...

*** Sacagawea River ***

North Fork Musselshell River The North Fork Musselshell River is a tributary of the Musselshell River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in the Little Belt Mountains in northeastern Me ...

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South Fork Musselshell River The South Fork Musselshell River is a tributary of the Musselshell River in south central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in the Crazy Mountains in southern Meagher County. It flows northeast, joini ...

** Milk River *** Big Sandy Creek ***

Frenchman River The Frenchman River, ( ats, níhʔɔɔtóóúníícááh, lit=white person river), also known locally as the Whitemud River, is a river in Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States. It is a tributary of the Milk River, itself a tributary o ...

** Redwater River ** Poplar River ** Big Muddy Creek ** Little Muddy Creek **

Yellowstone River The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains an ...

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Gardner River The Gardner River (also known as the Gardiner River) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately long, in northwestern Wyoming and south central Montana in the United States. The entire river is located within Yellowstone National P ...

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DePuy Spring Creek DePuy Spring Creek is a three mile long trout fishery located between the Absaroka and Gallatin mountain ranges in Paradise Valley, south of Livingston, Montana. The creek is a small tributary of the Yellowstone River. This fishery supports a p ...

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Shields River The Shields River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, long, in Meagher and Park Counties Montana in the United States. It rises in the Gallatin National Forest in the Crazy Mountains in northern Park County. It flows west, then south, be ...

*** Boulder River ***

Sweet Grass Creek Sweet Grass Creek is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in south central Montana in the United States. It rises in the Gallatin National Forest, in the Crazy Mountains in eastern Park County. It ...

*** Stillwater River ***

Clarks Fork Yellowstone River The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River (sometimes called the Clark's Fork River) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, 150 mi (241 km) long in the U.S. states of Montana and Wyoming. It rises in southern Montana, in the Gallatin N ...

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Bighorn River The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately long, in the states of Wyoming and Montana in the western United States. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the bighorn sheep he saw along its ban ...

**** Beauvais Creek **** Big Bull Elk Creek **** Black Canyon Creek **** Dry Head Creek **** Grapevine Creek **** Little Bighorn River ***** Alligator Creek ***** Lodge Grass Creek ***** Pass Creek ***** Reno Creek ***** Shoulder Blade Creek ***** West Fork Little Bighorn River **** Little Bull Elk Creek **** Rotten Grass Creek **** Soap Creek **** War Man Creek **** Woody Creek *** Tongue River **** Pumpkin Creek *** Powder River **** Little Powder River ***** East Fork Little Powder River **** Crow Creek **** Timber Creek ****

Spring Creek A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally be ...

**** Ash Creek **** Mizpah Creek ****

Sheep Creek Sheep Creek is a geographical place name. With variations, the name is given to hundreds of bodies of water, roads, canals, reservoirs and populated areas in the United States and other countries. It is the name of a tributary to Lockyear Creek in ...

**** Locate Creek *** O'Fallon Creek *** Cabin Creek ** Little Missouri River ***Thompson Creek

Laurentian Divide

Waters in these rivers flow north and east from the

Laurentian Divide The Laurentian Divide also called the Northern Divide and locally the ''height of land'', is a continental divide in central North America that separates the Hudson Bay watershed to the north from the Gulf of Mexico watershed to the south and the ...

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Hudson Bay Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...

, a tributary of the

Arctic ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...

, via the

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

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Nelson river The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs before it ends in Hudson Bay. Its full length (including the Saskatchewan River and Bow River) is , i ...

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Belly River Belly River is a river in northwest Montana, United States and southern Alberta, Canada. It is a tributary of the Oldman River, itself a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River. The name of the river may come from the Blackfoot word of , mean ...

* St. Mary River * Waterton River

West of Continental Divide

Water in these rivers flow west from the Continental Divide of the Americas into the

Pacific ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

via the

Columbia river The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...

. * Clark Fork River ** Bull River **

Thompson River The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The river ...

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Little Thompson River The Little Thompson River is a tributary of the Big Thompson River and thence the South Platte River in the U.S. state of Colorado. The river's headwaters lie in the Roosevelt National Forest. It flows east through the foothills of the Rocky Mou ...

** Vermilion River *** Queer Creek **

Flathead River The Flathead River ( fla, label= Salish, člq̓etkʷ ntx̣ʷetkʷ, , kut, kananmituk), in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Fla ...

*** Jocko River ***

Little Bitterroot River Little Bitterroot River is in northwestern Montana. It in the mountains west of Kalispell north of Marion or about west-northwest of Flathead Lake. It flows south-southeastward for to the Flathead River, which goes into the Clark Fork of the C ...

*** Spotted Bear River *** White River *** Whitefish River **** Stillwater River ** St. Regis River ** Bitterroot River ** Blackfoot River **

Little Blackfoot River The Little Blackfoot River is a long tributary of the Clark Fork River, located in Powell County, Montana in the state of Montana in the United States. Location and flows The Little Blackfoot River is located in Powell County, Montana. The rive ...

Kootenai River The Kootenay or Kootenai river is a major river in the Northwest Plateau, in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northern Montana and Idaho in the United States. It is one of the uppermost major tributaries of the Columbia River, the l ...

Yaak River The Yaak River (spelled Yahk River in Canada) is a tributary of the Kootenai River in Montana. Course The Yaak River originates near Yahk Mountain, in the Yahk Range, part of the Purcell Mountains, in southeast British Columbia. The river flo ...

** Fisher River ** Ninemile Creek ** Tobacco River ** Wigwam River * Swan River

Multiple streams with same name

* Willow Creek, there are 45 streams named Willow Creek in Montana

External links

Montana Streamflow Data from the USGSMontana Watershed Data From Environmental Protection AgencyMontana River ActionNational River Management Organization
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