Name: Ranch Creek

County: Crook

Authority Name: 

GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1050424W

Latitude: 445838N

Legal Description:

Elevation: 3264/995

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Stream

Origin of Name:

Creek, mostly in Powder River County, Montana, rises on Montana-Wyoming border ... and flows northwest into Little Powder River ... about half mile from Biddle (Montana) Post Office. So named around 1893 for ranch at mouth of creek.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932