| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Pronounced: | wan EE ta |
| Relative Location: | On BNR at junction of Pend-d'Oreille and Columbia Rivers, SE of Trail, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°00'14"N, 117°37'03"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Waneta (Post Office & Station) adopted 2 June 1950 on 82F/4, as labelled on BC map 4A, 1912 et seq, and on Mineral Reference Map 5, 1930, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Waneta (Station) 6 December 1951 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 13 (file C.2.49). Decision on MS 13. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Waneta Post Office opened 1 May 1893 located just north of Canada-US border. Great North Railroad (Nelson-Fort Sheppard Branch) opened c1908?; customs post opened here (date not cited). Waneta Post Office closed 31 July 1950. Great Northern R.R. track & rolling stock acquired by Burlington Northern Railway Company c1965. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Waneta was the name of an early mineral claim here; misspelling of "Juanita" Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |