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The Great Falls were incorporated into the Idaho Territory on March 4, 1863, [58] and then into the Montana Territory on May 28, 1864. [35] It became part of the state of Montana upon that territory's admission to statehood on November 8, 1889. [35] The Great Falls of the Missouri River became the site of a permanent settlement in 1883.
Big Falls (also called Great Falls or Roar of Steam [1]) is a major waterfall located on the Missouri River in western Montana in the United States.It is the lowermost and largest of the Great Falls of the Missouri, at 87 feet (27 m) high and up to 900 feet (270 m) wide at peak flow.
Great Falls is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Cascade County.The population was 60,442 according to the 2020 census. [4] The city covers an area of 22.9 square miles (59 km 2) [5] and is the principal city of the Great Falls, Montana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cascade County.
Ryan Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Missouri River, 10 miles (16 km) downstream from the city of Great Falls in the U.S. state of Montana.The dam is 1,336 feet (407 m) long and 61 feet (19 m) high; its reservoir is 7 miles (11 km) long and has a storage capacity of 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3).
The dam is named for the downstream Rainbow Falls, a 45 ft (14 m) waterfall that is the third of the five Great Falls of the Missouri.Built in 1910, the dam furnishes water to an eight-unit hydroelectric plant with a capacity of 36 megawatts.
Rainbow Falls (originally "Handsome Falls") is a waterfall on the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana, just upstream from Crooked Falls and downstream from Colter Falls and Rainbow Dam. It is 47 feet (14m) high and 1,320 feet (402.3m) wide. The waterfall is part of the five Great Falls of the Missouri. [1]
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Arrow Rock, Missouri; Augusta, Missouri; Atchison, Kansas; Bellevue, Nebraska; Bismarck, North Dakota; Black Eagle, Montana; Boonville, Missouri; Bridgeton, Missouri