Redwater River
River in and Richland County, Montana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Redwater (disambiguation). For the river in Alberta, Canada, see Redwater River (Alberta). For the river in South Dakota, see Redwater River (South Dakota).
The Redwater River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 110 mi (177 km), in eastern Montana in the United States.
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Redwater River | |
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Location | |
Country | McCone, Dawson, Prairie, and Richland County, Montana |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• coordinates | 47°03′37″N 105°52′53″W[1] |
Mouth | |
• coordinates | 48°03′41″N 105°12′38″W[1] |
• elevation | 1,946 feet (593 m)[1] |
Discharge | |
• location | Belle Fourche |
• average | 153 cu ft/s (4.3 m3/s)[2] |
Basin features | |
River system | Missouri River |
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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 Missouri in northeastern McCone County, approximately 4 mi (6 km) south of Poplar.