| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SE into Tulameen River, NW of Princeton, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°31'53"N, 120°55'37"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/10 |
| Related Maps: |
92H/10 92H/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Britton Creek adopted 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 421A, as labelled on BC Lands blueprint "Similkameen & Tulameen Valleys" by Jackson, BCLS, 1926. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Eagle Creek" on Geological Survey sheet 46A, Tulameen, 1911. "Britton Creek (not Eagle)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Re-named (presumably to avoid confusion caused by duplication) after the prospector who staked the first claims here; still living at Tulameen in 1948. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"For the last 14 years William Britton has held a group of claims a short distance beyond Eagle Creek, on the north side of the Tulameen." (BC Mines Report, 1913, p.234). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |