Abel Creek
Feature Type:Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Flows E into Windermere Lake, just S of Invermere, Kootenay Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 50°29'20"N, 116°01'35"W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 82K/8
Origin Notes and History:

"Abel Creek" adopted 4 November 1951 on Columbia River Basin sheet 48. Had been labelled "Ben Abel Creek" on BC map 4G, 1914.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

After Ben Abel, prospector and farmer, who arrived here in 1888. Also Mount Abel and Ben Abel Creek 15 miles SW.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office