| Vamp Creek | |
| Name Etymology: | Named after song |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Manitoba |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Vamp Creek in Manitoba. |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Manitoba |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Northern Region |
| Length: | 23.4km (14.5miles) |
| Source1: | Vamp Lake |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 54.9283°N -101.1692°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 342m (1,122feet) |
| Mouth: | Mistik Creek |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 54.7406°N -101.3717°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 315m (1,033feet) |
| River System: | Nelson River drainage basin |
Vamp Creek is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada, approximately 25km (16miles) north-east of Bakers Narrows.
The remote creek flows through Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and trembling aspen. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of muskeg.[1]
Vamp Creek area is difficult to access and largely pristine. It is home to moose, black bear, lynx, wolf, and beaver. It is part of the range of the Naosap woodland caribou herd.[2] Bird species include raven, common loon, spruce grouse, bald eagle and hawk-owl. The creek is only accessible by canoe or snowmobile, but there is some trapping, and hunting activity.[3]
Vamp Creek was named during a 1920 expedition of the Dominion Land Survey. The surveyors lost a gramophone record of the Byron Gay song "The Vamp", published in 1919.[4]