Morkill River

Morkill River
Map
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
DistrictCariboo Land District
Physical characteristics
SourceBig Shale Hill
 • locationPark Ranges, Rocky Mountains
 • coordinates53°35′48″N 119°46′29″W / 53.59667°N 119.77472°W / 53.59667; -119.77472[2]
 • elevation1,990 m (6,530 ft)[3]
MouthFraser River
 • location
Loos, Robson Valley
 • coordinates
53°36′45″N 120°42′17″W / 53.61250°N 120.70472°W / 53.61250; -120.70472[4]
 • elevation
646 m (2,119 ft)[3]
Discharge 
 • locationgage 08KA013[1]
 • average37.8 m3/s (1,330 cu ft/s)[1]
 • minimum3.72 m3/s (131 cu ft/s)
 • maximum420 m3/s (15,000 cu ft/s)

The Morkill River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The river is named after Dalby Brooks Morkill, an employee of the British Columbia Land Survey. He assayed the Morkill area in 1911 and 1912.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Archived Hydrometric Data Search". Water Survey of Canada. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2013. Search for Station 08KA013 Morkill River below Hellroaring Creek
  2. ^ Derived using topographic maps and TopoQuest.
  3. ^ a b Elevation derived from ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, using GeoLocator, and BCGNIS coordinates.
  4. ^ "Morkill River". BC Geographical Names.
  5. ^ Akrigg, GPV; Helen B. Akrigg (1998). British Columbia place names. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780774806367.