Hartz Creek


Hartz Creek is a tributary of the Tahltan River, part of the Stikine River watershed in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally south and southwest for roughly to join the Tahltan River about north of Tahltan, British Columbia at the Tahltan River's confluence with the Stikine River. Hartz Creek's watershed covers, and its mean annual discharge is estimated at. The mouth of Hartz Creek is located about northeast of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, about southwest of Dease Lake, British Columbia, and about east of Juneau, Alaska. Hartz Creek's watershed's land cover is classified as 44.2% shrubland, 30.7% mixed forest, 20.8% conifer forest, and small amounts of other cover.
Hartz Creek is in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, of the Tahltan people.

Geography

Hartz Creek originates on the southeast edge of the massive Level Mountain shield volcano, about southeast of Meszah Peak, the highest peak of the Level Mountain Range, a cluster of bare peaks on the summit of Level Mountain. The creek flows generally south and southwest through wetlands and a forested gorge to the Tahltan River a few kilometres west of Hiusta Lake, the locality of Hiusta Meadow, and the Tahltan Indian reserve "Hiusta's Meadow 2".