Sulphide Creek is a creek

Stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

 in the Moira River

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 county seat Belleville and is named after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira.-Course:...

 and Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot language, ontarío means...

 drainage basins

Drainage basin

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 in Tweed

Tweed, Ontario

Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe...

, Hastings County

Hastings County, Ontario

Hastings County is located in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is The Cheese Capital of Canada. Geographically, it is located on the border of Eastern Ontario and Central Ontario. The population was 125,915 in 2001 and grew to 130,474 in the 2006 Canada Census...

 and Addington Highlands

Addington Highlands, Ontario

Addington Highlands is a township in central eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lennox and Addington.Bon Echo Provincial Park is for the most part located in the township.-Communities:...

, Lennox and Addington County

Lennox and Addington County, Ontario

Lennox and Addington County, Ontario is a county and census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is Greater Napanee. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named Eastern Ontario.It includes the following municipalities:...

 in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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.

Course

Sulphide Creek begins at an unnamed lake in Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County, at an elevation of 209 metres (686 ft), about 600 metres (1,969 ft) south of Ontario Highway 7

Highway 7 (Ontario)

King's Highway 7, commonly referred to as Highway 7 and historically as the Northern Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario...

 and 10 kilometres (6 mi) east northeast of the community of Actinolite

Actinolite, Ontario

Actinolite is a community on the Skootamatta River in eastern Ontario. It is in the Municipality of Tweed, in Hastings County, on Highway 37 just south of Highway 7 and north of Tweed....

. It flows generally southwest almost immediately into Tweed, Hastings County, through a series of lakes and takes in several unnamed tributary creeks. It flows near the communities of Hungerford

Hungerford, Ontario

Hungerford is a settlement in the municipality of Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, about east of the community of Sulphide and northeast of the village of Tweed. Sulphide Creek, a tributary of the Moira River, flows northwest the community....

 and Otter Creek

Otter Creek, Hastings County, Ontario

Otter Creek is the name of a settlement in the municipality of Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It lies east of the community of Sulphide and northeast of the village of Tweed. Otter Creek, a tributary of the Clare River in the Moira River drainage basin, flows through the...

 to the community of Sulphide

Sulphide, Ontario

Sulphide is a settlement in the municipality of Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, about west of the community of Hungerford and northeast of the village of Tweed. Sulphide Creek, a tributary of the Moira River, flows through the community. Founded in 1836, the town was named for a series...

. It then heads south to its mouth at Cosy Cove, a bay

Bay

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 on the north side of Stoco Lake

Stoco Lake

Stoco Lake is a lake in the Lake Ontario drainage basin in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.The lake is about long and wide, and lies at an elevation of . There are two named islands, Butternut Island and Grant Island, and one named bay, Cosy Cove at the northeast. The primary inflow is...

 and also the name of a community Cosy Cove

Cosy Cove, Ontario

Cosy Cove is a settlement on Stoco Lake in the municipality of Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, about southwest of the community of Sulphide and east of the village of Tweed. Sulphide Creek, a tributary of the Moira River, reaches its mouth at Stoco Lake in the community.-References:...

 on the bay, at an elevation of 138 metres (453 ft). Stoco Lake flows via the Moira River into the Bay of Quinte

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 Saint Lawrence...

in downtown Belleville.