Adopted 6 May 1954 on Map 93B, as listed in 1953 Gazetteer of Canada. Resubmitted 1 October 1965 on Map 93B in correct location. Named in association with Nazko River and Nazko Lake.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff, file Q.2.54.

This is the name that the Carrier Indians applied to the while of th West Road River, but which the whites apply only to the major tributary coming from the south. Father Morice wrote that there are two possible translations for Nazko-“the river [that] flows ‘across’ the land into the Fraser,” and “Cross River, the river one has to cross in order to go north or south.”

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "British Columbia Place Names"; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997, Entry for Nazko River, page 211.