Beaver Creek (York Region)
Encyclopedia
Beaver Creek is a river in the municipalities of Markham
and Richmond Hill
in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is a tributary of the Rouge River
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and Highway 7. It continues southeast to a point just north of Highway 407, before turning northeast to join the Rouge River at 43°50′50"N 79°20′05"W at an elevation of 175 metres (574 ft), just southeast of the IBM
Canada Software Design Centre.
Markham, Ontario
Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...
and Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Richmond Hill is a town located in Southern Ontario, Canada in the central portion of York Region, Ontario. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, being located about halfway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe...
in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is a tributary of the Rouge River
Rouge River (Ontario)
The Rouge River is a two river system. Little Rouge and Rouge River are in the east and the northeast parts of Toronto and begin in the Oak Ridges Moraine in Richmond Hill and Whitchurch-Stouffville...
.
Hydrology
The source of the creek is a basin formed at the outflow of a drainage culvert in Richmond Hill at 43°52′45"N 79°24′41"W at an elevation of 219 metres (719 ft). 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 in Markham. The creek continues southeast under Highway 404 and southwest of the intersection of Woodbine AvenueWoodbine Avenue (Ontario)
Woodbine Avenue consists of two north-south road sections in central Ontario:# The southern section in Toronto begins near Ashbridges Bay on the shore of Lake Ontario, at Lake Shore Boulevard...
and Highway 7. It continues southeast to a point just north of Highway 407, before turning northeast to join the Rouge River at 43°50′50"N 79°20′05"W at an elevation of 175 metres (574 ft), just southeast of the IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Canada Software Design Centre.