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Cut Bank is a city in and the county seat of Glacier County, Montana, United States, located just east of the "cut bank" along Cut Bank Creek. [3] The population was 3,056 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] The town began in 1891 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railway .
Cut banks are found in abundance along mature or meandering streams, they are located opposite the slip-off slope on the inside of the stream meander. They are shaped much like a small cliff, and are formed as the stream collides with the river bank. It is the opposite of a point bar, which is an area of deposition of material eroded upstream ...
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 name to the cut bank formal terrain term of geological science.
Cut Bank, the county seat [2] with a population of around 3,000, is located in eastern Glacier County, on the edge of the Great Plains. Cut Bank arose from the railway [3] and agricultural needs of the surrounding area, and was fostered by an oil boom in the 1920s. [4] The town's diverse population is a result of this settlement.
The Cut Bank Penguin is a statue in Cut Bank, Montana.It is 27 feet (8.2 m) tall and weighs five tons, [1] and is of a cartoon penguin wearing a red hat on an iceberg.Text on the iceberg reads, "Welcome to Cut Bank MT, Coldest Spot in the Nation."
The Cut Bank Municipal Airport and Army Air Force Base, on Valier Highway in Cut Bank, Montana was built in 1942. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The listing included eight contributing buildings , 27 contributing structures, and four contributing sites on 1,460 acres (5.9 km 2 ).
Cut Bank High School is a public high school located in Cut Bank, Montana, with students in grades 9 through 12. The school is part of the Cut Bank Public Schools system. As of the 2022–2023 school year, the school has an enrollment of 227 students. [ 2 ]
The lake received runoff from the adjacent land area and from the north front of the Two Medicine Glacier for over 50 miles (80 km) (Squaw Buttes, southwest of Cut Bank, westward to the mountains). Cut Bank Glacier and the South Fork of the Milk River drained into Lake Cut Bank. [1] Water from the St. Mary Glacier and from both the mountain ...