Merrill Creek (Ontario)

Merrill Creek
River
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Regions Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario
Counties Hastings, Lennox and Addington
Part of Great Lakes Basin
Source Unnamed lake
 - location Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County
 - elevation 368 m (1,207 ft)
 - coordinates 44°56′56″N 77°23′45″W / 44.94889°N 77.39583°W / 44.94889; -77.39583
Mouth Partridge Creek
 - location Tweed, Hastings County
 - elevation 331 m (1,086 ft)
 - coordinates 44°53′21″N 77°25′44″W / 44.88917°N 77.42889°W / 44.88917; -77.42889Coordinates: 44°53′21″N 77°25′44″W / 44.88917°N 77.42889°W / 44.88917; -77.42889
Location of the mouth of Merrill Creek in southern Ontario.

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

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.

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