Coffee Creek was named for the creek with water a dark, coffee-brown color. In early days this was a favorite stopping place for cowboys riding the open ranges around it. The town itself began as a station of the Milwaukee Road. Two grain elevators and an International Harvester farm machinery store indicate this is now grain, rather than range country. (Dorothy Patten, Park County News). (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)