| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows S into Chilcotin River below Hanceville, SW of Williams Lake (city), Lillooet Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°52'18"N, 122°51'56"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92O/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Withrow Creek (not Sawmill Creek) identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Adopted 5 August 1954 on 92 O. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Sawmill Creek labelled on BC map 1G, 1916. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Re-named to avoid confusion with numerous other "Sawmill" creeks, after Samuel Withrow, settler here in the 1870s. [note: three children born to Samuel and Isabella (Dunlevy) Winslow; all baptised at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake, in 1883 & 1885; Samuel Withrow died 2 January 1901 at Vancouver, age 67 (BC Archives Microfilm Number B13093).] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |