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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 .
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.
A cut bank, also known as a river cliff or river-cut cliff, is the outside bank of a curve in a water channel , which is continually undergoing erosion. [1] 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.
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Cut Bank, Montana. Pages in category "People from Cut Bank, Montana" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Cut Bank station is a train station in Cut Bank, Montana. It is served by Amtrak's Empire Builder, and is an important regional railway freight yard for BNSF Railway, which operates several grain collection elevators in the yard. The station site is owned by Amtrak, [5] [6] while the adjacent yard, trackage and signals are owned by BNSF Railway.
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 ).
The Cut Bank Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was one of the first buildings built in Glacier by the National Park Service. Built in 1917, the design is in keeping with park hotel structures built by the Great Northern Railway in a Swiss chalet style that predated the fully developed National Park Service Rustic style.
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 ...