| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Bessette Creek, S of Lumby, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°12'05"N, 119°00'13"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
| Related Maps: |
82L/2 82L/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW, as submitted to Geographic Board by BC Geographic Division December 1921, and as labelled on BC map 4J, 1921, and on Department of Interior map 18, Okanagan, 1923. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Morley" on plan 30T12, Osoyoos (no date cited). Misspelled "Nicklin" on c1925 district survey by R.D. McCaw, BCLS. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Frank Harold Nicklen, who pre-empted land here in 1895, and later moved to Vernon (12th Report, Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Ok. 8:50). Source: included with note |
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" (Nicklen).... who came to the Okanagan from Hampshire, England in 1903....On June 20, 1895 he pre-empted land at the north of Jones Creek, which is a tributary of Harris Creek, Record No. 4812." Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |
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Headwaters at 50 07 - 118 57 on 82L/2. Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |