Lightning Creek
Feature Type:Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Flows W into Cottonwood River, E of Quesnel, Cariboo Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 53°00'59"N, 122°06'45"W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 93G/1
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Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 6 June 1922 as labelled on Trutch's 1871 map of BC, and on Amos Bowman's 1887 map of Cariboo Mining District, and on BC Lands' map 1G, 1916, etc.

Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

Lightning Creek and Swift River converge to become the Cottonwood River.

Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

"Name on 1861 map. Discovered and named by Henry Lighthall, W. Cunningham and Edward Campbell."

Source: 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924 (supplement to the Annual Report of the Dept of the Interior, 1924, Ottawa)