5561 Farrell Creek Rd, Hudson's Hope

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

222.9 ha (91%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

8%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

1%

15 to 30% slope

8%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

0%

Median slope

2%

Main slope direction

Mostly flat (slopes under 5%); measured by us on NRCan's 30 m elevation model

Which way it faces

9% south (SE to SW), 10% north (NW to NE), 75% flat; the rest east or west

Terrain stability (Province's map)

The Province's terrain stability mapping doesn't cover this lot: it was mapped from air photos, mostly on forest land, so most towns and farmland aren't on it. That says nothing either way about the ground's stability

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model: each dot on the plan is one 30 m cell. Small banks, gullies and benches can be smoothed out, and on lots under a few hectares the edges count for a lot. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

Dams nearby

None within 1 km on the Province's list of dams

Dikes nearby

None within 1 km on the Province's map of dikes and flood protection works

River gauge

No Water Survey of Canada gauge with 5 or more yearly peaks on Dry Creek within 25 km

These maps were drawn mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and cover only some rivers and lakes. Not being on one doesn't mean the land can't flood: ask the local government whether it has newer flood mapping, and whether its bylaws set a flood construction level or floodplain setback here.

Fires on the parcel

2

Last burned on the parcel

1991

Each fire on the parcel

1991 (236 ha, caused by people); 1971 (523 ha, caused by people)

Fires within 2 km

5

Within 2 km in the last 30 years

0

Most recent nearby

1991 (190 ha, caused by people)

Largest nearby

1971 (523 ha, caused by people)

Causes on record within 2 km

5 caused by people

Natural fire regime (the Province's ecosystem map)

NDT3, frequent stand-initiating events: forest where wildfire, or on the outer coast windstorms, replaced the stand about every 100 to 150 years on average, often in large fires (BC's largest fires burn in this type)

Biogeoclimatic unit

Boreal White and Black Spruce zone, moist warm subzone (BWBSmw)

Bruce spanworm on the lot (in trembling aspen)

2010: light over 2% of the lot; 2009: light over 100% of the lot

Within 1 km, not on the lot

Bruce spanworm in 2008 (nearest 580 m); large aspen tortrix in 2020 (nearest 420 m); aspen-poplar twig blight in 2013 (nearest 580 m)

What the survey's classes mean

foliage damage: grey, trees killed by years of foliage damage, recorded once the outbreak has run its course; severe, most trees with more than half their foliage damaged; moderate, a third of many trees' foliage severely damaged; light, some branch tips and upper crowns damaged, barely visible from the air

Surveys read

1999 to 2025, the Province's own; on the lot or within 1 km of its line

Fire perimeters mapped by the BC Wildfire Service since 1919, each with its size and the cause the Service recorded (lightning or people, sometimes unknown); older and small fires are less complete. Past fire is history, not a forecast: for insurance, ask about the fire protection area and the distance to the nearest fire hall.

The natural disturbance type is how the forest here burned, blew down or otherwise renewed itself before logging and fire suppression, from the Province's biogeoclimatic map and its Biodiversity Guidebook (1995). It describes the land around the lot over centuries, not the lot's own fire risk or the odds of a fire in any year; the Province's fire threat rating and fuel maps aren't open data. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

The Province's Aerial Overview Survey is flown each summer from small planes 500 to 1,000 m up, sketching damaged stands on maps at 1:100,000 to 1:250,000: it gives the general location and rough extent of damage, not a ground count, and the Province says it isn't accurate enough to direct work on the ground. Most of the province is flown each year, but weather and smoke leave gaps, so a year with no record isn't a year with no damage. Each year's polygons record the trees recently killed (fading or red) or the foliage damaged that season, as the surveyors read it from the air; trees killed in earlier years aren't counted again, and dead trees may since have fallen, been logged or burned. Clumps of up to about 50 dead trees are mapped as spots, which aren't shown here. Our summary of the survey's standards and damage ratings, checked 2026-10-12.

Community water

No open map of the District of Hudson's Hope's water service: ask the District of Hudson's Hope whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

3

Median depth

89 m

Median tested yield

17 L/min (2 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

45 m

Aquifer 441 under the lot

Lynx Creek; 7 km northeast of Hudson Hope: fractured sedimentary rock; productivity moderate, vulnerability moderate, demand low; 16 wells linked, median depth 51.1 m

Groundwater level trend

No provincial observation well still measured in the aquifer under the lot or within 10 km

Groundwater quality tested nearby

No well within 10 km of the lot in the Province's monitoring records since 2000. Test your own well, for bacteria and these, at an accredited lab; your health authority can say which labs take samples from private wells.

Drinking-water protection zone

None over the lot on the Province's map (it holds only the zones a water system's protection plan has mapped, so many wells and intakes have none on it)

Water systems' wells and intakes within 300 m

None on the Province's list

Community watershed

None over the lot on the Province's map

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

Health Canada's Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality set the most a drinking water should hold: arsenic 0.010 mg/L, fluoride 1.5 mg/L, manganese 0.12 mg/L (and 0.02 mg/L for taste and for staining laundry and fixtures), uranium 0.02 mg/L, nitrate 10 mg/L as nitrogen (45 mg/L as nitrate) and lead 0.005 mg/L, with arsenic and lead kept as low as reasonably achievable. Our summary of Health Canada's summary table, read 2026-10-11.

Cutblocks applied for (1 km)

0

Approved, not yet logged (1 km)

0

Logged in the last 5 years (1 km)

0

Old growth set aside from logging (1 km)

FSJ_DC_pbo_13 (about 14,575 ha, legal since 2009): 980 m from the lot line

Crown land applications (1 km)

None

Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m)

None

Along the lot line

No parcel mapped along about 70% of the lot line (the north, east and west sides), most often a road allowance, water or Crown land the parcel map doesn't draw (our reading); a road parcel along about 30% of the lot line (the south and west sides)

Rights of way and easements drawn on the lot

None drawn on ParcelMap BC; a charge with no plan can still be on the title, so ask for it

Crown land reserves and notations (1 km)

Notation of interest for fish and wildlife, file 8015932: no expiry date, its mapped area takes in the lot; Designated use area (Land Act s. 17) for a buffer, file 8016297: proposed, not yet in place, 290 m from the lot line; Designated use area (Land Act s. 17) for heavy industry, file 8015787: expires May 2, 2046, 700 m from the lot line; Order-in-council reserve (Land Act s. 15) for flooding by a reservoir, file 0214338: no expiry date, 710 m from the lot line; and 1 more

Local development applications

Not covered here: we read applications only where the local government publishes them as open data (the CSRD, the City of Surrey, the City of Abbotsford and the District of Squamish). Ask the District of Hudson's Hope what's in progress on and near the lot

Crown range tenures (1 km)

Grazing permit (Crown range file RAN078124, 57 animal unit months a year: an animal unit month is the forage an average cow with her unweaned calf eats in a month, as the Range Act measures it), 880 m from the lot line

Nearest power line (200 m)

About 70 m from the lot line

Power lines within 200 m

On the Province's map: circuit 1L364, about 70 m away. On OpenStreetMap: 138 kV, BC Hydro, about 70 m away

Oil and gas pipelines (200 m)

None within 200 m on the BC Energy Regulator's permit map

Permitted discharges to air, water and land (2 km)

None on the Province's list

Major projects in assessment (10 km)

None

Major projects approved (10 km)

None

Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km)

None

Closed or not reviewable (10 km)

None

Cutblocks are from the province's forest tenure records, which cover Crown forest licences and woodlots, not logging on private land. Crown land applications are on the province's tenure register; the Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site takes public comments on them. Mineral and placer claims are in their own section above.

An old growth management area is Crown forest the Province has set aside for old forest in a landscape unit plan, made legal by an order under the Forest Practices Code or the Land Use Objectives Regulation. Forest licensees must keep it intact; small incursions are allowed for forest health, worker safety, wildfire work and logging next to it. It's held over several harvest rotations, but it isn't a park: where the order allows, the Province can move an area and replace it with other forest, so it says what is planned now (our reading). It governs logging on Crown forest, not what an owner does on private land. Our summary of the Province's landscape unit pages, read 2026-10-11.

Who owns the land beside the lot is ParcelMap BC's owner type for each parcel that shares the lot line (measured by us along the line); the open parcel map names no owners. Crown land beside a lot, with a title or without, can be logged, leased, grazed or roaded, and a view or trail across it isn't yours to keep; ask the natural resource district or FrontCounter BC. Land owned by the local government is often a park, a road allowance or a utility lot; ask the local government what it's for.

The Province can set Crown land aside for a purpose, such as a gravel source, a road, a communication site, recreation or a treaty. Cabinet can reserve it by order in council (Land Act s. 15); the minister can withdraw it from disposition for a time, a map reserve (s. 16), or designate it for one use, a designated use area, which withdraws it from any use that doesn't fit (s. 17). A notation of interest isn't a reserve: it marks another agency's interest, so that agency is asked before the Province decides an application there (our reading). A notation along the lot doesn't stop an application for that land, but the agency that holds it is asked first (our reading). A reserve or notation binds Crown land only. Where its mapped area takes in a titled lot, it was most likely drawn round a wider area, or Crown land lies inside the lot's lines, such as a road allowance or the foreshore (our reading); ask FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) what the file covers. A reserve gives no date for when its purpose is used, if ever. Our summary of the Land Act, read 2026-10-12.

Range tenures let a rancher graze livestock or cut hay on Crown land under the Range Act; they cover Crown land only, so one drawn over a titled lot gives no right to graze it (our reading). Most of the Interior is open range: outside a pound district, the Livestock Act (s. 11 (4)) bars a claim for trespass when livestock strays onto land that isn't fenced, so keeping cattle off the lot is the owner's fence to build, and livestock on fenced land may be captured (s. 8). Pound districts are set by regulation and aren't on an open map: ask the regional district whether the lot is in one. Our summary of the Livestock Act, checked 2026-10-07.

Who holds a tenure isn't shown here; the Peace Natural Resource District of the Ministry of Forests can say who to talk to about cattle and fences.

Major projects are those large enough to need a provincial environmental assessment: mines, power plants, pipelines, transmission lines, highways, ports, dams and resorts, among others. Each is on the Environmental Assessment Office's register at a single point, the location it gives for the project. A mine, pipeline, transmission line or road can reach well past that point, so a project listed 8 km away can still pass the lot, and one placed beyond 10 km isn't listed here. Each project's page on the EAO's site has its maps, documents and comment periods; distances are measured by us from the lot line to the point. Smaller projects (subdivisions, smaller pits and quarries, and other works under the assessment thresholds) aren't on this register.

Power lines are from two maps read together: the Province's map of high-voltage transmission lines (BC Hydro's, private and independent producers' lines), which leaves voltages out, and OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map lines and record the voltage where it's known. Smaller distribution lines along streets aren't included. Distances are measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the real one. The line's right of way, and what it lets the line's owner do on the land, is set by the easement on title, which is the definitive record: check it in the title search, and ask BC Hydro (or the line's owner) about clearances for building and trees.

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel

None recorded

Within 500 m

Common Ringlet, benjamini subspecies (Blue-listed), Uhler's Arctic (Blue-listed)

Wide-ranging species mapped over it

None

Secured records in the wider area

No

Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel

No

Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel

No

Federal critical habitat over the lot

Little Brown Myotis: somewhere in the 50 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer; Northern Myotis: somewhere in the 50 km square that takes in the lot, not mapped closer

Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot

Not mapped here: the lot isn't covered by any of the Province's sensitive ecosystem inventories (checked 2026-10-11)

Invasive plants recorded on the lot

None on the Province's list

Invasive plants recorded within 100 m

None on the Province's list

Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 60% of the lot

Dense grass and other low plants; air photos of 2006; mapped as one wide area of 852 ha, so the lot itself can differ

Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 12% of the lot

Dense broadleaf forest of trembling aspen 100%; the leading trees about 139 years old and 31 m tall (projected to 2025); crown closure 70%; air photos of 2006

Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 8% of the lot

Open mixed forest of trembling aspen 50%, white spruce 30%, lodgepole pine 10%; the leading trees about 59 years old and 13 m tall (projected to 2025); crown closure 30%; air photos of 2006

Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), the rest

20% of the lot in smaller stands on the inventory

Red-listed species are at risk of being lost from BC; Blue-listed are of special concern. A record shows where the species was found, sometimes decades ago; no record doesn't mean nothing lives here, since most land has never been surveyed.

Federal critical habitat is the habitat a recovery strategy or action plan under the Species at Risk Act says a listed species needs to survive or recover (ss. 2, 41). On federal land the Act protects it by order (s. 58). On private and provincial land the Act leans on provincial and local law first; the federal Cabinet can order it protected where that falls short (s. 61). The Act's bans on harming a listed species or its residence apply everywhere for aquatic species and migratory birds, and elsewhere on private land only under a federal order (ss. 32 to 34). Our summary, read 2026-10-12.

Critical habitat for some sensitive species is kept off the public map; Environment and Climate Change Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry has each species' recovery strategy.

Species at risk can still limit building through local environmental development permit areas: ask the local government before planning work.

The Province's records come from invasive plant surveys, mostly since 2022, along roads, trails and shores and wherever crews were sent; no record doesn't mean no invasive plants. A record marks where a plant was found that day; it may since have been treated.

The Province's Vegetation Resources Inventory maps forest and other land cover from air photos, reading each stand as one: its trees by share of the stand, the leading species' age and height projected forward each year from the photo year, and crown closure (the share of the ground the tree crowns cover). It is built to plan forestry across the landscape, not to describe one lot: a mapped stand can hold clearings, a house site or other trees, the figures on private land can rest on old photos, and a stand logged or cleared since may still be drawn as forest. Before counting on timber, clearing costs or how much fuel stands near a house, have a forester or arborist walk the lot. Our summary, checked 2026-10-18.

Nearest railway (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Don Phillips Way (Highway 29), a major road, about 750 m from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Light at night (within 1 km, 2024)

None recorded from space; darker than about 94% of BC's homes.

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.

Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.

Light at night is what the VIIRS satellite records looking down at about 1:30 a.m., averaged over the cloud-free nights of 2024, with fires, the northern lights and other passing light left out (the Earth Observation Group's yearly composite); its cells are about 460 m by 300 m in BC. We give the median of the cells within 1 km of the lot's middle, in nanowatts per square centimetre per steradian (rounded to whole numbers), set against the same figure at BC's homes (Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points) and named after places that read alike (our reading). It is light going up, not how dark the sky looks from the ground: a nearby town's glow on the horizon (Winter sun lists any towns whose lights are in direct line), the moon, a neighbour's yard light and the trees aren't in it, and it says nothing of light at other hours. For stargazing, look at the sky from the lot on a clear, moonless night. This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nighttime Lights data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines.

December 21 (shortest day)

6 h 30 min of possible direct sun; 6 h 40 min on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

12 h; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

17 h 10 min; 17 h 20 min on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

10° above level; the hills due south rise to 0°

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

1° above level to the south-east, 12.2 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 674 m, from head height

Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude)

About 930 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 29), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.41 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.26 in December

Water the ground lets you see (16 km)

None on the Freshwater Atlas or the sea, over the bare ground

Highest skyline

1° above level to the northwest, 10.9 km away

Named peaks in view (150 km)

Mount Bickford to the southwest, 67 km away (about 1,870 m); Mount Monteith to the southwest, 60 km away (about 2,083 m); The Monach to the west-southwest, 61 km away (about 1,886 m); Tworidge Mountain to the south-southwest, 29 km away (about 1,203 m); Mount Johnson to the southwest, 27 km away (about 929 m); and 1 more

Highest ground in view

About 2,083 m: Mount Monteith, to the southwest, 60 km away

Farthest ground in view

About 67 km to the southwest: Mount Bickford

Most relief in one direction

To the southwest: from about 674 m, 0.5 km away, up to about 1,915 m, 59 km away

Town centres in line of sight

None within 150 km, over the bare ground

City lights in direct line (150 km)

None over the bare ground: the lit towns within 150 km are behind the hills or the curve of the earth (our reading)

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

The panel output is our reading of Natural Resources Canada's figures: its map gives the sun reaching a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude, averaged over 1998-2022 on a grid of about 10 km, and we turn it into kWh for each kW of panels at the performance ratio its Photovoltaic Potential maps use (0.75: losses in heat, wiring, the inverter and dirt). The map is for an open sky: the hills around the lot, trees, buildings and snow on the panels aren't counted. A solar installer measures the roof or the spot itself.

What the ground allows you to see from head height at the middle of the lot, read by us on the same elevation model as the sun hours, out to 16 km: trees, buildings and the house's own spot and height aren't counted, so a view the ground allows can be hidden by the forest, and a second storey can see over a rise. Lakes and rivers are the Freshwater Atlas's; the sea is read where the elevation model sits at sea level.

Peaks, towns and the farthest ground are read by us out to 150 km on the same elevation model, coarser past 16 km (cells of 240 m to 60 km, 480 m beyond), with the curve of the earth and the usual bending of light: summits read lower than they are at that scale, so a peak only counts when it clears the ground before it, and one at the very edge of the skyline may be left out. It's what the bare ground allows on a perfectly clear day: haze, smoke, cloud, trees and buildings aren't counted. Peak names are BC Geographical Names'; peaks outside BC aren't named.

City lights in direct line are our reading: the satellite's lit cells (15 nW/cm²/sr and up, the brightness of a town centre or more) within 150 km, each named after the nearest town centre within 8 km, and a town counted when one of its brightest cells, taken 10 m above the ground, clears the bare ground before it on the same elevation model as the long view. It says where lights are in a straight line, not how bright they look: the glow a town throws over a ridge isn't modelled, so a town behind the hills can still light the sky above them, and haze, trees and buildings aren't counted.