Lemon Creek
| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Slocan Lake, NW of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°41'59"N, 117°29'04"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Lemon Creek (flag stop) identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer - located on CPR. Lemon Creek (station) adopted 7 July 1955 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 64, as labelled on BC Landds' map 4B, 1946. Form of name changed to Lemon Creek (community) 29 November 1984. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with the nearby creek of the same name, in turn after Robert Lemon, prominent pre-WW I merchant of Nelson. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |