| Language of origin | Ktunaxa language |
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into upper Goat River, NE of Creston, Kootenay Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'35"N, 116°21'25"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Kamma Creek adopted 16 July 1948 on Geological Survey sheet 603A, Nelson, as originally submitted February 1936 by BC Geographic Division to the Geographic Board of Canada, and as labelled on BC map 4C, Cranbrook, 1936. Coordinates of mouth confirmed 7 November 1962 on 82F/SE. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Kamma is a Kootenay [Ktunaxa] word meaning "my mother." (Tolmie, W.F. & Dawson, G.M; Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia; Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884, line 310, p.109B.) [note: this is not necessarily the traditional Ktunaxa name for the creek - it appears to have been CHOSEN from Tolmie & Dawson's lexicon.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Chauncey (East Fork Goat) River" on Forest Service reference map 16-9S (date not cited). Labelled "Kamma (Chauncey) (East Fork Goat) Creek" on BC map 4C, 1936. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |