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The geography of the Flathead roughly corresponds to the valley where Flathead Lake is located, with two distinct ends – the northern (or upper) Flathead Valley and the southern (lower) Flathead Valley. In addition to Flathead and Whitefish lakes, the area's proximity to attractions such as Glacier National Park, Whitefish Mountain Resort ...
The Trench in northwestern Montana was created by subsidence along a major extensional fault, which continues today. After the valley formed, glaciers flowing down the Trench from British Columbia, and into it from the surrounding mountain ranges left a flat valley floor and dammed the Flathead River drainage to create Flathead Lake.
At one time, probably when the valley was partially filled by a glacier, the level of Flathead Lake was about 500 feet (150 m) higher and drained through the valley west of Elmo, Montana, which is at the end of Big Arm Bay, bottom center in the aerial photo above. Water carved out a wide, flat-bottomed pass with a deeper, narrow channel at the ...
Bad Rock Canyon is a river canyon lying 2.64 miles (4.25 km) east of Columbia Falls, Montana. The Flathead River, flanked by U.S. Highway 2, flows through the canyon [1] and enters Montana's Flathead Valley. [2] Rock slides occur frequently along the northern side of the BNSF Railway tracks that run through the canyon.
Kalispell (/ ˈ k æ l ə ˌ s p ɛ l, ˌ k æ l ə ˈ s p ɛ l /, Montana Salish: Ql̓ispé, Kutenai language: Kqayaqawakⱡuʔnam [4]) is a city in Montana and the county seat of Flathead County, Montana, United States. [5] The 2020 census put Kalispell's population at 24,558. [6]
In Senate District 3, which includes the West Valley, parts of Kalispell, Hungry Horse and Martin City, Republican Rep. Carl Glimm is running for his seventh consecutive term in the Montana ...
The North Fork Flathead River (Ktunaxa: kqaskanmituk [3]) is a 153-mile (246 km) [2] river flowing through British Columbia, Canada, south into the U.S. state of Montana.It is one of the three primary forks of the Flathead River, the main inflow of Flathead Lake and a tributary of the Columbia River via the Clark Fork River and the Pend Oreille River.
Dec. 15—A chorus of barks can be heard at the Flathead County Animal Shelter on any given day. Often nearly at full capacity, the shelter is home to an ever-rotating mix of small and big dogs ...