| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into Iskut River, SE of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°15'50"N, 130°16'15"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/8 |
| Related Maps: |
104G/1 104G/8 104H/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Deep Creek adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on Stikine River sheet 16T293 (title/date not cited). Name changed to Burrage Creek 24 July 1945 on 104SE to avoid confusion with another Deep Creek, tributary to Stikine River just below Telegraph Creek (community). Burrage Creek re-approved 4 September 1952 on 104H. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After W. Burrage, quartermaster for the Western Union Telegraph Company party which, in 1886, explored this area for an overland route for a telegraph line from North America via Alaska, the Bering Strait and Asia, thence to Europe. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |