| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S across BC-Washington boundary, just W of Grand Forks, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°59'59"N, 118°32'10"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82E/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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July Creek adopted 6 October 1955 on 82E, as labelled on Triangulation Survey of Boundary Creek Country, 1897, and on Geological Survey of Canada map #828, Boundary Creek Mining District, 1905, and on BC Lands' map 1EM, 1915, and map 4K, 1923, etc. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Length of the stream = 8 miles (length in BC = 6.5 miles). Labelled "4th of July Creek" on Boundary Atlas drawings, 1901. Identified as "4th July Creek" on 1921 survey plan of Lots 3229, 3230 (Field Book 221/21, ph 20, SDYD), where name is extended along the upstream channel that is now called Snowshoe Creek. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |