Kain Creek's fish-record coordinate sits at 50.87461, -116.65824, among the small Purcell-side tributaries of Bugaboo Creek that also include
septet creek and
rockypoint creek. It runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river) across about 62 mapped channel segments and roughly 12 km of length. The channel runs narrow, with a median width around 6.6 m, and steep, with a median gradient near 6.13%, typical of a small headwater tributary rather than an approachable valley creek.