Powder River (Wyoming and Montana) - Wikipedia
WEBPowder River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 375 miles (604 km) long in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana in the United States. Combined with its tributary, the South Fork Powder River, it is 550 miles long. It drains an area historically known as the Powder River Country on the high plains east of the Bighorn ...
Powder River County, Montana - Wikipedia
WEBPowder River County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,694. [2] . Its county seat is Broadus. [3] History. Powder River County's area was probably first entered by Europeans when French trappers worked its streams in the early 1800s.
Powder River Basin - Wikipedia
WEBThe Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km) north to south, known for its extensive coal reserves.
Get To Know Powder River County - Distinctly Montana
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Bordered by Bighorn and Rosebud Counties to the west, Carter County to the east, and Custer County to the north, Powder River County is a 3,300-square-mile rectangle that lies on the Wyoming border. With a 2020 U.S. Census count of 1,694 residents, the county is 48th of Montana’s 56 counties in population.
Powder River County, Montana
WEBPowder River County is a rural, agricultural county located in the southeastern part of Montana. The county was named after the Powder River itself and was created from part of Custer County in 1919. The Powder River, incidentally, got its name from the gunpowder-colored sand on its banks.
Powder River County, Montana
WEBPowder River County is a rural, agricultural county of 3297 square miles, located in southeastern Montana. The population density is 0.6 persons per square mile, compared to the Montana average of 6.0 per square mile. The County was created from Custer County on March 17, 1919, and named for the Powder River which runs through it.
Powder River Country Offers Picturesque Montana Prairie
WEBThe Powder River meanders through prairie and rugged badlands in eastern Montana. (Photo by Rick and Susie Graetz) “A mile wide, an inch deep, too thin to plow and too thick to drink” is as appropriate a portrayal today as it was when the first inhabitants described southeast Montana’s Powder River.
The Powder River Basin: A Natural History | WyoHistory.org
WEBNov 8, 2014 · Generally the Powder River Basin refers to the lower elevation lands reaching from the Bighorn Mountains in north central Wyoming to the Black Hills on the Wyoming/South Dakota border, even though this region also includes the watersheds of the Tongue, Little Missouri, Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers, tributaries of …
Deep in the Powder River Valley – Wild Montana
WEBAug 25, 2015 · The Powder River winds it’s way through grassland prairie from the slopes of the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming through southeast Montana to the Yellowstone River, carving out intricate river breaks and badlands along its way. The area’s few inhabitants are mostly hearty ranchers who …
Powder River - University of Montana
WEBThe Powder River meanders through prairie and rugged badlands in eastern Montana. (Photo by Rick and Susie Graetz) “A mile wide, an inch deep, too thin to plow and too thick to drink” is as appropriate a portrayal today as it was when the first inhabitants described southeast Montana’s Powder River.
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