| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Duncan River, just above N end of Kootenay Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°11'49"N, 116°57'10"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/2 |
| Related Maps: |
82K/2 82K/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915, as labelled on C.E. Perry's 1893 mining map "West Kootenay", and on Jorgensen's 1895 map of BC, and on BC Mines map of East & West Kootenay to accompany 1897 Mines Report, and on Geological Survey sheet 19A, Lardeau, 1911, and as labelled on BC maps 4F, 1913 and 1EM, 1915. Re-approved 3 July 1947 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 12. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Cooper or Stony Creek" on Reference map 21-23 (title & date not cited). "Cooper Creek (not Stony)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after an 1880's Kaslo prospector and trapper. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |