Mess Creek
Feature Type:Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Flows NW into Stikine River just below Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 57°53'24"N, 131°12'31"W at the approximate mouth of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 104G/14
Related Maps:
Origin Notes and History:

"Mess Creek (not First South Fork of Stikine River)" adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC Lands' map 5C, 1929. Re-approved in 1935 on Geological Survey map 309A, Stikine (Ottawa file OBF 1274.)

Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

Formerly known as "Mestua" as identified in Minister of Mines Annual Report 1912: K81:

"August 6th. The party left Telegraph Creek on the afternoon of August 6th … The trail leaves the Stikine valley a short distance below Telegraph Creek, mounting rapidly to an, elevation of about 2,750 feet, and soon descending into the valley of the Mestua (or 1st South fork), which is here a deep canyon." (Information provided by geographer Robert M Galois, July 2018)

Source: included with note