The creek's confluence sits at 50.46695, -116.52210, within the wider
horsethief creek tributary group that also includes
Stockdale Creek,
Paulding Creek, Bruce, Law, McDonald, Red Line, Gopher, Andreen, Haultain and Fan creeks. It drains toward the
columbia river by way of Horsethief Creek. It runs stream order 5 (well down the network toward river scale, on a system that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river) across 97 mapped channel segments. The channel geometry reads as a moderate-width, moderate-gradient mountain tributary: median width ~11.6 m (moderate, wider than most of its Horsethief cousins but well short of driftable size), median gradient ~2.15% (gentle to moderate), and peak mean-annual discharge ~2.401 m³/s (low to moderate flow).