Beaver Creek | |
River | |
Country | Canada |
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State | Ontario |
Region | Regional Municipality of York |
Municipalities | Markham, Richmond Hill |
Source | |
- elevation | 219 m (719 ft) |
- coordinates | |
Mouth | Rouge River |
- elevation | 175 m (574 ft) |
- coordinates | |
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.
The source of the creek is a basin formed at the outflow of a drainage culvert in Richmond Hill at 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 Avenue and Highway 7. It continues southeast to a point just north of Highway 407, before turning northeast to join the Rouge River at at an elevation of 175 metres (574 ft), just southeast of the IBM Canada Software Design Centre.