Beaver Creek
Beaver Creek in Richmond Hill
Beaver Creek (York Region) is located in Southern Ontario
Beaver Creek (York Region)
Location of the mouth of Beaver Creek in Southern Ontario
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
RegionGreater Toronto Area
Regional municipalityYork
Municipalities
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationRichmond Hill
 • coordinates43°52′45″N 79°24′31″W / 43.87917°N 79.40861°W / 43.87917; -79.40861
 • elevation219 m (719 ft)
MouthRouge River
 • coordinates
43°50′50″N 79°20′05″W / 43.84722°N 79.33472°W / 43.84722; -79.33472[1]
 • elevation
175 m (574 ft)
Basin features
River systemGreat 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][2] 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

References

  1. 1 2 "Beaver Creek". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ "CLAIMaps IV". Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
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