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 |
| Related Maps: |
93G/1 93H/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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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. |
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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. |
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"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) |