Vesta Creek (french: ruisseau Vesta) is a stream in the municipalities of
Arran–Elderslie
The Municipality of Arran–Elderslie is a township in Bruce County in Western Ontario, Canada. The township is located at the headwaters of the Sauble River, and the Saugeen River forms the northwestern boundary.
Communities
The township comp ...
and
Brockton,
Bruce County
Bruce County is a county in Southwestern Ontario, Canada comprising eight lower-tier municipalities and with a 2016 population of 66,491. It is named for James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, sixth Governor General of the ...
in
Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
It is in the
Lake Huron drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where 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, ...
and is a right tributary of the
Saugeen River
The Saugeen River is located in southern Ontario, Canada. The river begins in the Osprey Wetland Conservation Lands and flows generally north-west about before exiting into Lake Huron. The river is navigable for some distance, and was once an im ...
.
Course
Vesta Creek begins in Brockton at the confluence of two unnamed streams at an elevation of
and heads northwest, passes under
Bruce County Road 19 and enters Arran–Elderslie. It turns west, flows to the north of the settlement of
Vesta, then again heads northwest, and reaches its mouth as a right tributary of the
Saugeen River
The Saugeen River is located in southern Ontario, Canada. The river begins in the Osprey Wetland Conservation Lands and flows generally north-west about before exiting into Lake Huron. The river is navigable for some distance, and was once an im ...
at an elevation of .
The Saugeen River flows to
Lake Huron.
References
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Rivers of Bruce County