Beaver Creek (York Region) Explained

Beaver Creek
Pushpin Map:Canada Southern Ontario
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the mouth of Beaver Creek in Southern Ontario
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Canada
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Ontario
Subdivision Type3:Region
Subdivision Name3:Greater Toronto Area
Subdivision Type4:Regional municipality
Subdivision Name4:York
Subdivision Type5:Municipalities
Source1 Location:Richmond Hill
Source1 Coordinates:43.8792°N -79.4086°W
Source1 Elevation:219m (719feet)
Mouth:Rouge River
Mouth Coordinates:43.8472°N -79.3347°W
Mouth Elevation:175m (574feet)
River System:Great Lakes Basin

Beaver Creek is a river in the municipalities of Markham and Richmond Hill in the Regional Municipality of York, part of the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.[1] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin and is a right tributary of the Rouge River.

Hydrology

The source of the creek is a basin formed at the outflow of a drainage culvert in Richmond Hill. The creek flows southeast through a residential area before crossing almost directly under the intersection of Leslie Street and 16th Avenue into the eponymous Beaver Creek industrial area. The creek continues southeast into Markham, under Highway 404 and southwest of the intersection of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7 at the community of Brown's Corners. It continues southeast to a point just north of Highway 407, before turning northeast to join the Rouge River, just southeast of the IBM Toronto Software Lab. The Rouge River flows to Lake Ontario.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CLAIMaps IV. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 2016. 2018-07-03.