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Map of principal rivers of Montana Further information on the hydrological apex of the North American continent: Triple Divide Peak (Montana) This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 83 miles (134 km) long, [3] [4] in the U.S. state of Montana. The Jefferson River and the Madison River form the official beginning of the Missouri at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks. It is joined 0.6 miles (1.0 km) downstream (northeast) by the Gallatin.
The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group. It dates to the Late Cretaceous , between 79 and 75.3 million years ago, [ 4 ] corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age.
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 .
The Roe River runs from Giant Springs to the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana, United States. The Roe River is only 201 feet (61 m) long at its longest constant point, and had been named as the World's Shortest River by the Guinness Book of World Records before Guinness eliminated the category in 2006. Towards its mouth, the Roe is ...
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 671 miles (1,080 km) long, in the Western United States.Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains and high plains of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, and stretching east from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of Yellowstone ...
Species of fish found on the North and/or South Forks down to Harlowton include: mountain whitefish, and brown, cutthroat, rainbow, and brook trout. The eastern part of the river has channel catfish , sauger , smallmouth bass , and walleye due to the warmer water caused by dewatering from irrigation and the arid climate shift from mountain to ...
The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork is a tributary of the Pend Oreille River, a Columbia River tributary. With a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles (22,780 km 2 ) and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second (322 m 3 /s), the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and ...