List of Montana rivers - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a partial list of river
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

s in Montana
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

(U.S. state

U.S. state

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Missouri River watershed

Missouri River
Missouri River
The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...
- Jefferson River
  Jefferson River
  The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, 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...
  - Beaverhead River
    Beaverhead River
    The Beaverhead River is an approximately -long tributary of the Jefferson River in southwest Montana . It drains an area of roughly . The river's original headwaters, formed by the confluence of the Red Rock River and Horse Prairie Creek, are now flooded under Clark Canyon Reservoir, which also...
    - Ruby River
      Ruby River
      The Ruby River is a tributary of the Beaverhead River, approximately 76 mi long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in southwestern Madison County between the Snowcrest Range and the Gravelly Range...
    - Red Rock River
      Red Rock River (Montana)
      The Red Rock River is a roughly river in southwestern Montana in the United States. Its drainage basin covers over . Its farthest tributary, Hell Roaring Creek, originates in the Beaverhead National Forest near the Montana-Idaho border at Brower's Spring, at an elevation of...
  - Big Hole River
    Big Hole River
    The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately 153 miles long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in Skinner lake in the Beaverhead National Forest in the Beaverhead Mountains of the Bitterroot Range at the continental divide along the...
    - Wise River
      Wise River
      The Wise River is a tributary of the Big Hole River, approximately 30 mi long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in the Pioneer Mountains in Beaverhead County. It flows NNW through the mountains and joins the Big Hole near the town of...
  - Boulder River
    Boulder River (southwestern Montana)
    The Boulder River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately 71 mi long, in southwestern Montana in the United States.It rises in the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide in the Deerlodge National Forest in western Jefferson County...
- Roe River
  Roe River
  The Roe River runs between Giant Springs and the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana, United States. The Roe River is only 201 feet at its longest constant point....
  
  (one of the shortest rivers in the world)
- Madison River
  Madison River
  The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana form the Missouri River....
- Gallatin River
  Gallatin River
  The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 120 mi , in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana...
  - East Gallatin River
    East Gallatin River
    The East Gallatin River flows in a northwesterly direction through the Gallatin valley, Gallatin County, Montana. Rising from the confluence of Rocky Creek and several other small streams, the East Gallatin begins about one mile east of downtown Bozeman, Montana. The river joins the main stem of...
- Sixteen Mile Creek
- Dearborn River
  Dearborn River
  The Dearborn River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 70 mi long, in western Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, near Scapegoat Mountain in the Lewis and Clark Range of the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide, in western Lewis...
- Smith River
  Smith River (Montana)
  Smith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, in central Montana, in the United States. It rises in southern Meagher County in the Castle Mountains and flows northwest in the valley between the Big Belt and Little Belt mountains, past White Sulphure Springs and past Smith River State Park...
- Sun River
  Sun River
  The Sun River is a tributary of the Missouri River in the Great Plains, approximately 130 mi long, in Montana in the United States....
- Belt Creek
  Belt Creek (Montana)
  Belt Creek is a tributary, approximately 80 mi long, of the Missouri River in western Montana in the United States.It originates in the Lewis and Clark National Forest north of Big Baldy Mountain, in the Little Belt Mountains in western Judith Basin County...
- Marias River
  Marias River
  The Marias River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 210 mi long, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is formed in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Glacier County, in northwestern Montana, by the confluence of the Cut Bank Creek and the Two Medicine River...
  - Cut Bank Creek
    Cut Bank Creek
    Cut Bank Creek is a tributary of the Marias River in the Missouri river basin watershed, approximately 75 mi 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.It...
  - Two Medicine River
    Two Medicine River
    The Two Medicine River is a tributary of the Marias River, approximately 60 mi long, in northwestern Montana in the United States....
    - Birch Creek
      - Dupuyer Creek
        Dupuyer Creek
        Dupuyer Creek is a tributary of Birch Creek in northwestern Montana in the United States.It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest at the continental divide in northwestern Teton County and flows northwest down from the mountains, past Dupuyer, and joins Birch Creek in Pondera County...
  - Teton River
    Teton River (Montana)
    The Teton River is a tributary of the Marias River, approximately 150 mi long, in northwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, in the southern Lewis Range of the Rocky Mountains at the continental divide...
  - Cottonwood Creek (Liberty County, Montana)
- Arrow Creek
- Cow Creek
  Cow Creek (Montana)
  Cow Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in north central Montana in the United States. Cow Creek rises in the southern foothills of the Bear Paw Mountains in western Blaine County and flows east and then south, joining the Missouri approximately air miles northeast of...
- Judith River
  Judith River
  The Judith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 124 mi long, running through central Montana and the United States. It rises in the Little Belt Mountains and flows northeast past Utica and Hobson...
  - Dry Wolf Creek (Judith Basin County, Montana)
  - Dry Wolf Creek (Fergus County, Montana)
- Musselshell River
  Musselshell River
  The Musselshell River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long from its origins at the confluence of its North and South Forks near Martinsdale, Montana to its mouth on the Missouri River. It is located east of the Continental divide entirely within Montana in the United States...
  - Sacagawea River
    Sacagawea River
    The Sacagawea River is a tributary of the Musselshell River, approximately 30 mi long, in north-central Montana in the United States. It rises on the plains of northern Fergus County and flows eastward...
  - North Fork Musselshell River
    North Fork Musselshell River
    The North Fork Musselshell River is a tributary of the Musselshell River, approximately 35 miles long, in Montana in the United States....
  - South Fork Musselshell River
    South Fork Musselshell River
    The South Fork Musselshell River is a tributary of the Musselshell River in south central Montana in the United States.It rises in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in the Crazy Mountains in southern Meagher County. It flows northeast, joining the North Fork to form the Musselshell near...
- Milk River
  Milk River (Montana-Alberta)
  The Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long, in the United States state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, the river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of , ending just east of Fort Peck, Montana.-Geography:It is formed in...
  - Big Sandy Creek
    Big Sandy Creek (Montana)
    Big Sandy Creek is a tributary of the Milk River, approximately 50 miles long, in northwestern Montana in the United States.It rises in the southern Rocky Boys Indian Reservation in the Bears Paw Mountains and flows southwest, then north past Box Elder, then northeast, joined by Sage Creek, and...
  - Frenchman River
    Frenchman River
    Frenchman River, or Frenchman Creek, is a river in Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States. It is a tributary of the Milk River, itself a tributary of the Missouri.The river is approximately long....
- Redwater River
  Redwater River
  The Redwater River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 110 mi , in eastern Montana in the United States.It rises in on the northern slope of the Big Sheep Mountains, in northwestern Prairie County, and flows northeast across the plains past Brockway and Circle and joins the...
- Poplar River
- Big Muddy Creek
- Yellowstone River
  Yellowstone River
  The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, the river and its tributaries drain a wide area stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of the Yellowstone National...
  - Gardner River
    Gardner River
    The Gardner River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately long, in northwestern Wyoming and south central Montana in the United States. The entire river is located within Yellowstone National Park...
  - DePuy Spring Creek
    DePuy Spring Creek
    DePuy Spring Creek is a three mile long trout fishery located between the Absaroka and Gallatin mountain ranges in Paradise Valley, south of Livingston, Montana. The creek is a small tributary of the Yellowstone River. This fishery supports a population of brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout....
  - Shields River
    Shields River
    The Shields River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 50 mi long, in Montana in the United States.It rises in the Gallatin National Forest in the Crazy Mountains in northern Park County. It flows west, then south, between the Bridger Range to the west and the Crazy...
  - Boulder River
  - Sweet Grass Creek
    Sweet Grass Creek
    Sweet Grass Creek is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 50 mi long, in south central Montana in the United States.It rises in the Gallatin National Forest, in the Crazy Mountains in eastern Park County...
  - Stillwater River
  - Clarks Fork Yellowstone River
    Clarks Fork Yellowstone River
    The Clarks Fork Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, 150 mi long in the U.S. states of Montana and Wyoming....
  - Bighorn River
    Bighorn River
    The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately long, in the western United States in the states of Wyoming and Montana. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the Bighorn Sheep he saw along its banks as he explored the Yellowstone River.The upper...
    - Big Bull Elk Creek
    - Black Canyon Creek
    - Dry Head Creek
    - Grapevine Creek
    - Little Bighorn River
      Little Bighorn River
      The Little Bighorn River is a tributary of the Bighorn River in the United States in the states of Wyoming and Montana. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought on its banks in 1876, as well as the Battle of Crow Agency in 1887....
      - Aligator Creek
      - Dry Fork Creek
      - Lodge Grass Creek
      - Pass Creek
      - Shoulder Blade Creek
      - West Fork Little Bighorn River
    - Little Bull Elk Creek
    - Rotten Grass Creek
    - Soap Creek
    - War Man Creek
  - Tongue River
    Tongue River (Montana)
    The Tongue River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 265 mi long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana. The Tongue rises in Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains, flows through northern Wyoming and southeastern Montana and empties into the Yellowstone River at Miles City,...
    - Pumpkin Creek
  - Powder River
    Powder River (Montana)
    Powder River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately long in the southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming in the United States. It drains an area historically known as the Powder River Country on the high plains east of the Bighorn Mountains.It rises in three forks in eastern...

Saskatchewan River watershed

Belly River
Belly River
Belly River is a river in northwest Montana, United States and southern Alberta, Canada. It is a tributary of the Oldman River, itself a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River....
St. Mary River
Waterton River

West of Continental Divide

Clark Fork River
- Bull River
- Vermilion River
- Flathead River
  Flathead River
  The Flathead River, in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Rocky Mountains near Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, then after a journey of , empties into the Clark Fork. The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark...
  - Jocko River
    Jocko River
    The Jocko River is a roughly tributary of the Flathead River in western Montana in the United States. It rises in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and flows west into the Flathead at Dixon. The elevation is where it joins the Flathead. It is also known as Jacques Fork, Jim’s Fork, Prune River...
  - Whitefish River
    Whitefish River (Montana)
    The Whitefish River is a tributary of the Flathead River in the U.S. state of Montana. It is part of the Columbia River basin, as the Flathead River is a tributary of Clark Fork, which is tributary to the Pend Oreille River, which is tributary to the Columbia River.-Course:The Whitefish River...
    - Stillwater River
- St. Regis River
  St. Regis River (Montana)
  The St. Regis River is a tributary of the Clark Fork of the Columbia River in Montana in the USA. It begins at Lookout Pass on the Idaho/Montana border, flows east and ends west of St. Regis, Montana at the confluence with the Clark Fork. Its drainage is . The record high flow for the St...
- Bitterroot River
  Bitterroot River
  The Bitterroot River is a tributary of the Clark Fork River in southwestern Montana, USA. It runs for about 75 miles south-to-north through the Bitterroot Valley, from the confluence of its West and East forks near Conner to the Clark Fork near Missoula.Ravalli County and Missoula County...
- Blackfoot River
  Blackfoot River (Montana)
  The Blackfoot River, sometimes called the Big Blackfoot River to distinguish it from the Little Blackfoot River, is a snow-fed and spring-fed river in western Montana. The Blackfoot River begins in Lewis and Clark County at the Continental Divide, 10 miles northeast of the town of Lincoln...
- Little Blackfoot River
Kootenai River
- Yaak River
  Yaak River
  The Yaak River is a tributary of the Kootenay River in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of British Columbia.-Course:...
- Fisher River
  Fisher River (Montana)
  The Fisher River is a tributary of the Kootenay River in the U.S. state of Montana. The Fisher River properly begins at the confluence of its two main tributaries, the Pleasant Valley Fisher River and the Silver Butte Fisher River...
- Ninemile Creek
Swan River
Swan River (Montana)
The Swan River in the western part of the U.S. state of Montana starts in the Mission Mountains at Gray Wolf Lake and continues north to Swan Lake. Then it goes west and is impounded by a dam before emptying into Bigfork Bay and the town of Bigfork, where it enters Flathead Lake. The last stretch...

Multiple streams with same name

Willow Creek
Willow Creek (Montana)
There are 45 streams named Willow Creek in the state of Montana.* Willow Creek , , el. * Willow Creek , , el. * Willow Creek , , el....

, there are 45 streams named Willow Creek in Montana

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