Milk River
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Key facts
- Etymology
- Named by the Lewis and Clark Expedition for its milky color
- Countries
- United States and Canada
- State
- Montana
- Province
- Alberta
- Source
- Confluence of South and Middle Forks
- Location
- Glacier County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48°51′20″N 113°01′10″W / 48.85556°N 113.01944°W / 48.85556; -113.01944
- Elevation
- 4,403 ft (1,342 m)
- Mouth
- Missouri River
- Length
- 729 mi (1,173 km)
- Basin size
- 23,800 sq mi (62,000 km )
- Average
- 618 cu ft/s (17.5 m /s)
- Minimum
- 0 cu ft/s (0 m /s)
- Maximum
- 45,300 cu ft/s (1,280 m /s)
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Milk River (Alberta–Montana)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Missouri River
- watershed area
- 61642
- discharge
- 17
- different from
- Milk
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Encyclopedic overview
The Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 729 miles (1,173 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, the river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of 23,800 square miles (62,000 km), ending just east of Fort Peck, Montana.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milk River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations