Potter Creek | |
Name Other: | French: ruisseau Potter |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of Potter Creek on a map of Southern Ontario |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Map of Southern Ontario with a dot at the location of the mouth of Potter Creek |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Northern Ontario |
Subdivision Type4: | District |
Subdivision Name4: | Nipissing District |
Subdivision Type5: | Part |
Subdivision Name5: | Unorganized South Part |
Source1: | Tern Lake |
Source1 Coordinates: | 45.5778°N -78.8369°W |
Source1 Elevation: | [1] |
Mouth: | Canoe Lake |
Mouth Coordinates: | 45.5778°N -78.7283°W |
River System: | Great Lakes Basin |
Potter Creek (French: ruisseau Potter) is a stream in the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.[2] [3] [4] It is a tributary of Canoe Lake, is in the Lake Huron drainage basin, and lies within Algonquin Provincial Park.
Potter Creek begins at Tern Lake at an elevation of and heads north to Furrow Lake. It leaves the lake at the north end, takes in the left tributary Brown Creek, and turns north east, curving southeast through Brûlé Lake to Potter Lake. Potter Creek flows south-southeast out of the south end of the lake, crosses the former Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway at the settlement of Canoe Lake, and reaches its mouth at Canoe Lake at an elevation of . Canoe Lake flows via the Oxtongue River, the Lake of Bays, the South Branch Muskoka River, the Muskoka River, Lake Muskoka and the Moon River to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.