Brook Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N and NW into Coldwater River, SW of Merritt, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°49'57"N, 120°55'25"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/15 |
| Related Maps: |
92H/10 92H/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Brook Creek (not Brooks Creek nor Pass Creek)" adopted 19 July 1938 on Geological Survey sheet 421A, Hope, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914, and on R.D. McCaw's 1925 topographic map "Otter Creek & Vicinity", and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. So-named in association with Brookmere (station). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Headwaters at 49 43 - 120 57 on 92H/10. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |