The creek carries an official Kootenay Land District name, at 50.636944, -117.547500. It runs stream order 3 (near the headwater end of a scale that runs from 1, a trickle, up to 6 or more for a full river) and stretches roughly 5 km before joining
wilkie creek, which in turn drains toward
duncan lake by way of Trout Lake and the Lardeau system. Bcfishpass channel-geometry data puts the median width at roughly 2.9 m (narrow), the median gradient at roughly 17.96% (steep) and the peak mean-annual discharge at roughly 0.287 m³/s (low flow), a small, steep headwater profile. Water Survey of Canada lists a station reference for Humphries Creek near Trout Lake (08NH138), which would support a future flow check if the creek's legal status is ever resolved.