Dry Cottonwood Creek
Location
LocationDeer Lodge County, Montana
Physical characteristics
Source 
  coordinates46°12′39″N 112°39′01″W / 46.21083°N 112.65028°W / 46.21083; -112.65028 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)
Mouth 
  coordinates
46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)[1]
  elevation
4,705 feet (1,434 m)
Basin features
River systemColumbia River

Dry Cottonwood Creek is a creek in Deer Lodge County, Montana. Approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, it flows northwest out of the southern reaches of the Boulder Mountains into the Clark Fork river near Deer Lodge, Montana. Sapphires are found along this creek.[2]

Notes

  1. "Dry Cottonwood Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Voynick, Stephen M. (1985). Yogo The Great American Sapphire (March 1995 printing, 1987 ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-87842-217-X.



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