Dry Cottonwood Creek (Deer Lodge County, Montana)

Dry Cottonwood Creek
Origin	46°12′39″N 112°39′01″W / 46.21083°N 112.65028°W / 46.21083; -112.65028 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)
Mouth	46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)Coordinates: 46°14′40″N 112°45′03″W / 46.24444°N 112.75083°W / 46.24444; -112.75083 (Dry Cottonwood Creek)[1]
Location	Deer Lodge County, Montana
Mouth elevation	4,705 feet (1,434 m)
River system	Columbia River

Dry Cottonwood Creek is a creek in Deer Lodge County, Montana. Approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, it flows northwest out of the southern reaches of the Boulder Mountains into the Clark Fork river near Deer Lodge, Montana. Sapphires are found along this creek.^[2][3]

Notes

1. ^ "Dry Cottonwood Creek". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:782550. 
2. ^ "Montana Sapphires - Gemology". Gem Gallery. http://www.gemgallery.com/#montana_sapphire_gemology. Retrieved October 29, 2011.  Note: Includes map of major Montana sapphire mines
3. ^ Voynick, Stephen M. (1985). Yogo The Great American Sapphire (March 1995 printing, 1987 ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-87842-217-X.