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Place Name
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Milk
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Place Status (Type)
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river
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Location
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Glacier County, Montana (MT), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Milk
, river, 729 mi/1,173 km long,
Mont. and Alta. (Canada); rising in the Rocky Mts., formed by joining
of South and Middle Forks 21 mi/34 km N of
Browning, Glacier co., NW Mont. South Fork
(c.30 mi/48 km long) and Middle Fork
(c.20 mi/32 km long) rise in the Blackfeet
Indian Reservation just E of Glacier Natl. Park; then the river flows
ENE into Alta., where it receives North Fork of the Milk R., then
curves E past town of Milk River and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park,
SE into Montana again, through Fresno Reservoir, past Havre, then forms
N boundary of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. From there, it then
flows past Malta and Glasgow to the Missouri R.,
10 mi/16 km downstream, (NE) of Fort Peck Dam,
in SW corner of Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Milk R. reclamation
project (est. 1911) irrigates c.134,000 acres/54,230 ha. The
largest of several dams is the Fresno Dam (completed 1939). Malta,
Chinook, Glasgow, and Harlem (Mont.) are in the project area.
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