Airy Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Four Mile Creek |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows E into Little Slocan River, just W of junction with Slocan River, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°33'39"N, 117°42'05"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Airy Creek (not 4 Mile Creek)" adopted 19 January 1956 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 63 as identified in 1953 BC Gazetteer (file C.3.54). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Had been labelled "Four Mile Creek" on BC map 29, Rossland, 1912; labelled "Airy (Four Mile) Creek" on BC map 4A, 1926; labelled "Airy (4 Mile) Creek" on Forest Service map No. 9, 1940. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |