Emory Creek flows east from Mount Baird to the Fraser River.

The area is underlain metasediments and metaplutonic rocks of the Mesozoic Settler Schist and the Cretaceous and/or Tertiary Custer Gneiss. These rocks come in contact along the Hope Fault, which parallels the Fraser River to the west. Eocene sediments overlie members of the Custer Gneiss immediately to the east of the fault.

Emory Bar has a history of gold recovery dating back to 1858, when gold was first discovered along the Fraser River. After the nearby Hills Bar, the Emory Bar was the second- highest producing bar on the Fraser River. In 2009 and 2010, the area was prospected by E. Goldsmith. No historic records of claims or gold extraction are available.

In 2010, sampling of 0.31 cubic metre of material from Emory Bar yielded 0.2 gram of gold (Assessment Report 31765).