Merrill Creek (Ontario)

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

Merrill Creek
Location of the mouth of Merrill Creek in southern Ontario
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regions	Central Ontario Eastern Ontario
Counties	Hastings Lennox and Addington
Physical characteristics
Source	Unnamed lake
• location	Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County
• coordinates	44°56′56″N 77°23′45″W
• elevation	368 m (1,207 ft)
Mouth	Partridge Creek
• location	Tweed, Hastings County
• coordinates	44°53′21″N 77°25′44″W
• elevation	331 m (1,086 ft)
Basin features
River system	Great Lakes Basin

Course

Merrill Creek begins at an unnamed lake in Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County at an elevation of 368 metres (1,207 ft) and flows east and then south, through Todd Lakes, to reach Merrill Lake at an elevation of 338 metres (1,109 ft). 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 331 metres (1,086 ft). Partridge Creek flows via the Skootamatta River and Moira River to the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario at Belleville.

See also

• List of rivers of Ontario

References

• "Merrill Creek". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
• "Toporama - Topographic Map Sheet 31C14". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
• "Quinte Conservation Watersheds" (PDF). Quinte Conservation. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
• "Moira River Watershed" (PDF). Quinte Conservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-03-04.