Cut Bank Creek

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.

The Cut Bank Creek
The Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank, Montana
Location
Country	Glacier County, Montana
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Pitamakan Lake, Mount Morgan(Montana)
• coordinates	48°31′09.1″N 113°27′34″W[1]
2nd source
• location	Mad Wolf Mountain
• coordinates	48°35′12.5″N 113°22′05.4″W[1]
Mouth
• coordinates	48°29′12″N 112°13′36″W[1]
• elevation	3,294 feet (1,004 m)[1]
Discharge
• location	Cut Bank
• average	179 cu ft/s (5.1 m3/s)[2]
Basin features
River system	Missouri River

It rises in the Rocky Mountains in Glacier National Park at the continental divide and flows ENE onto the foothills and plains of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, then southeast, past Cut Bank, Montana where it forms a scenic gorge 150 feet (46 m) deep^[3] spanned by an elevated railway bridge just a mile from the town's Amtrak rail transport system passenger station and BNSF railway freight yards. The river and cliff there are prototypical giving rise to the eponymous formally named "cut bank" geographic terrain feature archetype.

In southeastern Glacier County, approximately 12 mi (19 km) southeast of Cut Bank, it joins the Two Medicine River to form the Marias River.

There is a brewery in Cut Bank whose name is based on this creek.^[4]

See also

• Montana portal

• List of rivers of Montana
• Montana Stream Access Law