Spring Creek Colony is a

Hutterite Hutterites (; ), also called Hutterian Brethren (German: ), are a communal ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early 16th century and have formed intent ...

community and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Fergus County Fergus County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,446. Its county seat is Lewistown. The county was founded in 1885 and named for James Fergus, a Montana politician who was instrumental in cr ...

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 ...

, United States. It is in the western part of the county, along Big Spring Creek, a northwest-flowing tributary of the

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 ...

, which in turn flows north to the

Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...

. The colony sits at the western foot of the

South Moccasin Mountains The South Moccasin Mountains, el. , is a small mountain range northwest of Lewistown, Montana in Fergus County, Montana. See also * List of mountain ranges in Montana This is a list of mountain ranges in the state of Montana. Montana is th ...

and is northwest of Lewistown, the Fergus

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. Spring Creek Colony was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

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Census-designated places in Fergus County, Montana Census-designated places in Montana Hutterite communities in the United States {{FergusCountyMT-geo-stub