Brooklyn Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Pup Creek, SW side of Lower Arrow Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°23'09"N, 118°03'10"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1959 on 82E/SE, as labelled on BC map 4A, 1926, and on Departmental Reference Map 18-9-S (date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Presumably the location of Brooklyn Post Office, opened 15 October 1898; closed 30 April 1900. Named by CPR construction engineers, 1898. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |