Explore Black Creek, British Columbia, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
Imagery © Google · for orientation only, not for navigation
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Black Creek, British Columbia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of British Columbia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Black Creek and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Black Creek.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Black Creek |
| Type | Community |
| Province / Territory | British Columbia (BC) |
| Location | Comox Land District |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 49.833333 |
| Longitude | -125.13333 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | V9J |
| Area Code | 236, 250, 604, 672, 778 |
| Importance | Town |
| CGN ID | JAJIB |
Black Creek is a community in Comox Land District, British Columbia, Canada. It is classified as a town. Black Creek is located at 49.8333°N, 125.1333°W.
Black Creek settles into the Comox Land District as a quiet expanse where the dense, coastal timber meets the salt-scented air. It lies 18.8 km north-north-west of Courtenay, BC (from Courtenay, BC: bearing 328°T), and is situated 8.2 km north-west of Merville. The terrain here holds a particular stillness, defined by the steady presence of the Oyster River as it carves its way toward the sea near Constitution Hill. Sunlight catches the moisture rising from the earth at dusk, turning the heavy canopy into a blur of deep emerald and charcoal, a visual weight that presses against the edges of the road. While the Aureole Icefield stands as a distant, frozen sentinel far to the west, the land nearby keeps its own secrets, with the waters of Northy Lake offering a cool, reflective contrast to the darker shadows of the trees. The proximity to Miracle Beach Park provides a transition point where the forest finally yields to the shoreline, allowing the tide to dictate the daily pace of the landscape. Black Creek maintains a character rooted in the resilience of those who cleared the cedar and fir to establish small-scale holdings and family farms. The local economy persists through these agricultural traditions and the seasonal movements of the timber industry, keeping the focus on the immediate, tangible labor of the land. History lingers in the clearings where the soil remains rich, a recurring cycle of growth that sustains the people who call Black Creek home. Life moves with an awareness of the changing seasons, marked by the arrival of salmon in the streams and the shifting intensity of the Pacific rain. It is a quiet existence, defined by the persistence of the river and the vast, quiet reach of the trees that define the horizon.
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Explore Black Creek, British Columbia, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 49.833333, -125.13333. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Black Creek includes the postal code (V9J), telephone area code (236, 250, 604, 672, 778). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Black Creek is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |