Moonbeam Creek | |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of the creek in Ontario |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Northeastern Ontario |
Subdivision Type4: | District |
Subdivision Name4: | Cochrane |
Subdivision Type5: | Parts or municipalities |
Subdivision Name5: | Unorganized North Cochrane District, Fauquier-Strickland |
Source1: | unnamed wetland |
Source1 Location: | Fauquier-Strickland |
Source1 Elevation: | 250m (820feet)[1] |
Mouth: | Poplar Rapids River |
Mouth Location: | Alexandra Township, Unorganized North Cochrane District |
Mouth Coordinates: | 49.395°N -81.7997°W[2] |
Mouth Elevation: | 211m (692feet) |
River System: | James Bay drainage basin |
Tributaries Right: | Strickland Creek |
Moonbeam Creek is a stream in both the municipality of Fauquier-Strickland and Unorganized North Cochrane District, Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.[3] [4] [5] [6] It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a left tributary of the Poplar Rapids River.
The creek begins at an unnamed wetland in the municipality of Fauquier-Strickland and flows north, passes under Ontario Highway 11 and the Ontario Northland Railway just west of the community of Strickland, and flows into geographic Alexandra Township in Unorganized North Cochrane District. It continues northeast, takes in the right tributary Strickland Creek at Moonbeam Lake, loops south then back north, and reaches its mouth at the Poplar Rapids River. The Poplar Rapids River flows via the Mattagami River and the Moose River to James Bay.