Merrill Creek (Ontario) Explained

Merrill Creek
Pushpin Map:Canada Southern Ontario
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the mouth of Merrill Creek in southern Ontario
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Canada
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Ontario
Subdivision Type3:Regions
Subdivision Type4:Counties
Source1:Unnamed lake
Source1 Location:Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County
Source1 Coordinates:44.9489°N -77.3958°W
Source1 Elevation:368m (1,207feet)
Mouth:Partridge Creek
Mouth Location:Tweed, Hastings County
Mouth Coordinates:44.8892°N -77.4289°W
Mouth Elevation:331m (1,086feet)
River System:Great Lakes Basin

Merrill Creek is a creek in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Hastings and Lennox and Addington Counties, Ontario, Canada.

Course

Merrill Creek begins at an unnamed lake in Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County at an elevation of 368m (1,207feet) and flows east and then south, through Todd Lakes, to reach Merrill Lake at an elevation of 338m (1,109feet). It heads south into Little Merrill Lake, then southwest to Whitefish Lake. Leaving the lake, the creek passes into the Cashel portion of Tudor and Cashel, Hastings County, then Tweed, Hastings County, and flows southwest to reach its mouth at Partridge Creek at an elevation of 331m (1,086feet). Partridge Creek flows via the Skootamatta River and Moira River to the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario at Belleville.

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