# Artifact Creek

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Tribuatary river in the country of Canada

Artifact Creek Mouth of Artifact Creek Location Country Canada Province British Columbia District Cassiar Land District Physical characteristics Source Near Kitsu Peak • location Spectrum Range • coordinates 57°26′50″N 130°41′12″W / 57.44722°N 130.68667°W / 57.44722; -130.68667[3] • elevation 1,875 m (6,152 ft)[2] Mouth Stewbomb Creek • coordinates 57°25′17″N 130°31′52″W / 57.42139°N 130.53111°W / 57.42139; -130.53111[1][2] • elevation 1,140 m (3,740 ft)[2] Length 13 km (8.1 mi)[4] Basin size 42.5 km2 (16.4 sq mi)[5] Discharge • average 1.62 m3/s (57 cu ft/s)[5] Basin features Topo map NTS 104G7 Mess Lake

**Artifact Creek** is a [tributary](/source/Tributary) of [Stewbomb Creek](/source/Stewbomb_Creek) and part of the [Stikine River](/source/Stikine_River) [watershed](/source/Drainage_basin) in northwest part of the [province](/source/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada) of [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), [Canada](/source/Canada).[1][6] It flows generally southeast for roughly 13 km (8.1 mi)[4] to join Stewbomb Creek, which flows into the [Little Iskut River](/source/Little_Iskut_River). In turn the Little Iskut River flows to the [Iskut River](/source/Iskut_River), the largest tributary of the Stikine River.

Artifact Creek's watershed covers 42.5 km2 (16.4 sq mi) and is entirely in [Mount Edziza Provincial Park](/source/Mount_Edziza_Provincial_Park). The creek's mean annual [discharge](/source/Discharge_(hydrology)) is estimated at 1.62 m3/s (57 cu ft/s).[5]

The mouth of Artifact Creek is located about 65 km (40 mi) southeast of [Telegraph Creek](/source/Telegraph_Creek), British Columbia, about 118 km (73 mi) south of [Dease Lake](/source/Dease_Lake), British Columbia, and about 250 km (160 mi) southeast of [Juneau, Alaska](/source/Juneau%2C_Alaska).[4] Artifact Creek's watershed's [land cover](/source/Land_cover) is classified as 51.4% [barren](/source/Barren_vegetation), 15.3% [shrubland](/source/Shrubland), 14.5% [herbaceous](/source/Herbaceous_plant), 10.3% [conifer forest](/source/Conifer), 8.2% [snow](/source/Snow)/[glacier](/source/Glacier), and small amounts of other cover.[5]

Artifact Creek is in [Mount Edziza Provincial Park](/source/Mount_Edziza_Provincial_Park), which lies within the traditional territory of the [Tahltan First Nation](/source/Tahltan_First_Nation), of the [Tahltan](/source/Tahltan) people.[7][8]

The name of Artifact Creek and nearby [Artifact Ridge](/source/Artifact_Ridge) and [Obsidian Ridge](/source/Obsidian_Ridge) comes from the abundant piles of stone chips left from the [knapping](/source/Knapping) of [obsidian](/source/Edziza_obsidian) tools and points by early Tahltan hunters.[1][9]

## Geography

Artifact Creek originates near [Kitsu Peak](/source/Kitsu_Peak), about 30 km (19 mi) south of [Mount Edziza](/source/Mount_Edziza). It flows east and southeast between [Obsidian Ridge](/source/Obsidian_Ridge) to the south and [Artifact Ridge](/source/Artifact_Ridge) to the north. It collects various small unnamed tributary streams before emptying into Stewbomb Creek about 3 km (1.9 mi) upstream from Stewbomb's confluence with the Little Iskut River.[2][10]

## Geology

The north side of Artifact Creek is bounded by a 180 m-thick (590 ft) sequence of lava flows belonging to the [Armadillo Formation](/source/Armadillo_Formation) of the [Mount Edziza volcanic complex](/source/Mount_Edziza_volcanic_complex). A single 9 m-thick (30 ft) [ash flow](/source/Ash_flow) deposit also belonging to the Armadillo Formation is exposed on the south side of Artifact Creek. Along the north side of Artifact Creek are two poorly exposed, low, northeasterly trending ridges of [trachybasalt](/source/Trachybasalt) that may be [intrusions](/source/Intrusion) linked to the [Little Iskut](/source/Little_Iskut_Formation) conduit system.[11]

## See also

- [List of rivers of British Columbia](/source/List_of_rivers_of_British_Columbia)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-bcgnis_1-2) ["Artifact Creek"](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/9263.html). *[BC Geographical Names](/source/BC_Geographical_Names)*. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-toporama_2-3) ["Toporama (on-line map and search)"](http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html). *[Atlas of Canada](/source/Atlas_of_Canada)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada). Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Derived from BCGNIS, topographic maps, and [Toporama](https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-length_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-length_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-length_4-2) Lengths and distances measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, online map servers, and [Toporama](https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-watertool_5-3) ["Northwest Water Tool"](https://nwwt.bcwatertool.ca). *BC Water Tool*. GeoBC, Integrated Land Management Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 4 October 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Artifact Creek"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=JAQLI). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Our Territory"](https://tahltan.org/our-territory). Tahltan Central Government. Retrieved 29 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Dah Ki Mi — "Our House""](https://tahltan.ca/nation/territory). Tahltan Band Council. Retrieved 29 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Artifact Ridge"](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/9265.html). *[BC Geographical Names](/source/BC_Geographical_Names)*. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mapbook_10-0)** Mussio, Russell; Mussio, Wesley (2018). [*Northern BC Backroad Mapbook*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pBAFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99). Mussio Ventures. p. 99. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-926806-87-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-926806-87-7). Retrieved 28 September 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Souther, J. G.](/source/Jack_Souther) (1992). The Late Cenozoic Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia. *[Geological Survey of Canada](/source/Geological_Survey_of_Canada)* (Report). Memoir 420. Canada Communication Group. pp. 64, 71. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.4095/133497](https://doi.org/10.4095%2F133497). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-660-14407-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-660-14407-7).

v t e Rivers of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex by drainage basin Iskut River Artifact Creek, Ball Creek, Bourgeaux Creek, Gerlib Creek, Little Iskut River, More Creek, Stewbomb Creek Kakiddi Creek Chakima Creek, Nido Creek, Pyramid Creek, Shaman Creek, Sorcery Creek, Tenchen Creek, Tennaya Creek, Tsecha Creek Mess Creek Crayke Creek, Elwyn Creek, Flyin Creek, Kadeya Creek, Kitsu Creek, Nagha Creek, Raspberry Creek, Sezill Creek, Tadekho Creek, Taweh Creek, Walkout Creek

v t e Mount Edziza volcanic complex Cinder cones The Ash Pit Cache Hill Camp Hill Cinder Cliff Cocoa Crater Coffee Crater Eve Cone Exile Hill Icefall Cone Kana Cone Keda Cone Klastline Cone Mess Lake Cone Moraine Cone Nahta Cone Outcast Hill Ridge Cone Sidas Cone Sleet Cone Source Hill Storm Cone Thaw Hill Triplex Cones Twin Cone Walkout Creek centres Williams Cone Subglacial volcanoes Pillow Ridge Tennena Cone Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge Central volcanoes Armadillo Peak Mount Edziza Ice Peak Spectrum Range Lava domes Glacier Dome IGC Centre Nanook Dome Pharaoh Dome The Pyramid Sphinx Dome Triangle Dome Lava fields Desolation Lava Field Mess Lake Lava Field Snowshoe Lava Field Plateaus Arctic Lake Plateau Big Raven Plateau Kitsu Plateau Ridges Artifact Ridge Cartoona Ridge Idiji Ridge Obsidian Ridge Pillow Ridge Sorcery Ridge Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge Yagi Ridge Mountain passes Destell Pass Raspberry Pass Bluffs Koosick Bluff Ornostay Bluff Glaciers Idiji Glacier Tenchen Glacier Tencho Glacier Tennaya Glacier Streams Artifact Creek Ball Creek Bourgeaux Creek Chakima Creek Crayke Creek Elwyn Creek Flyin Creek Gerlib Creek Kadeya Creek Kitsu Creek Little Iskut River More Creek Nagha Creek Nido Creek Pyramid Creek Raspberry Creek Sezill Creek Shaman Creek Sorcery Creek Stewbomb Creek Tadekho Creek Taweh Creek Tenchen Creek Tennaya Creek Tsecha Creek Walkout Creek Stratigraphic units Armadillo Formation Big Raven Formation (Sheep Track Member) Edziza Formation Ice Peak Formation Kakiddi Formation Klastline Formation Little Iskut Formation Nido Formation (Tenchen Member) Pyramid Formation Raspberry Formation Other Cartoona Peak Gnu Butte Mess Creek Escarpment Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

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