| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW into Similkameen River at Hedley, between Keremeos and Princeton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°20'58"N, 120°04'49"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/8 |
| Related Maps: |
82E/12 82E/5 92H/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Hedley Creek (not Twenty Mile Creek)" adopted in the 14th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Twenty Mile Creek" on Geological Survey sheet 978, A Portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, by G.M. Dawson, 1877; labelled "Twentymile Creek" on Geological Survey sheet 1A, Hedley Mining District, 1910; labelled "Hedley (Twentymile) Creek" on BC map 1EM, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After R.R. Hedley, Hall Mines Smelting Company, Nelson." [see Hedley (community) for additional biographical information.] Source: 15th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1917 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1917, Ottawa) |