| Feature Type: | Flats (3) - A large area of flat, wet ground. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Thompson River between Avola and Messiter, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°50'14"N, 119°17'44"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Cottonwood Flats adopted 20 January 1989 on 82M/14, as labelled on BC map 3J, 1921 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Delineated by Water Management Branch, Kamloops, and confirmed by Avola Outdoors Club, January 1989 (file V.1.61) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This area was labelled Stillwater Flats on BC map 3J, North Thompson, 1914 & 1915. CNR's Cottonwood Flats station was opened sometime before 1921, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on the 1921 edition of BC map 3J. Although it is generally understood that the railway station was so-named in association with the surrounding physiographic feature, there is no record of how or at what early point Stillwater Flats became known as Cottonwood Flats. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |