Partridge Creek is a
creek in the
Moira River
The Moira River is a river in Hastings County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the Bay of Quinte at the county seat Belleville .
Name
Originally named the Sagonaska River by the indigenous peo ...
and
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The Canada–United Sta ...
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
s in
Hastings
Hastings ( ) is a seaside town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to th ...
and
Lennox and Addington
Lennox and Addington was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1925. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1903 from Addington and Lennox ridings. It co ...
Counties,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
Course
Partridge Creek begins at an elevation of at the outflow of an unnamed lake in the Cashel portion of the township of
Tudor and Cashel
Tudor and Cashel is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County.
The township consists of two non-contiguous portions, separated by Limerick township and the northernmost portion of Tweed.The municipality is mostly ...
, Hastings County, about southwest of the community of
McCrae and just north of Weslemkoon Lake Road that leads to that community. It flows south under the road immediately to
Upper Partridge Lake and continues southeast through a series of unnamed lakes, takes in the left tributary
Merrill Creek Merrill may refer to:
Places in the United States
*Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska
*Merrill, Iowa
*Merrill, Maine
*Merrill, Michigan
*Merrill, Mississippi, an unincorporated community near Lucedale in George County
*Merrill, Oregon
*Merrill, Wisc ...
and reaches
Grimsthorpe Lake, which straddles the boundary to Lennox and Addington County, at an elevation of . The creek continues in a southeasterly direction to
Partridge Lake at an elevation of . It reaches
Deerock Lake at an elevation of , then flows east over Deerock Dam to its mouth at the
Skootamatta River
The Skootamatta River is a river in the Lake Ontario drainage basin in Hastings and Lennox and Addington Counties in Ontario, Canada. It flows from Joeperry Lake to join the Moira River in Tweed. The river's name is thought to come from Ojibwa wo ...
, about west of the community of
Northbrook and north of
Flinton, both in the township of
Addington Highlands
Addington Highlands is a township in central eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lennox and Addington. Bon Echo Provincial Park is located primarily in Addington Highlands.
History
Addington Highlands was formed on january 1, 1998, throu ...
. The Skootamatta River flows via the Moira River to the
Bay of Quinte
The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter "Z" on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of ...
on Lake Ontario at
Belleville.
See also
*
List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
...
References
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Rivers of Hastings County
Rivers of Lennox and Addington County