| Feature Type: | Hotsprings / Hot Springs - Site of a natural flow of hot or warm water issuing from the ground. Plural of Hotspring / Hot Spring. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Choquette Hot Springs |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of lower Stikine River, above Choquette River, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 56°50'04"N, 131°45'27"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104B/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Stikine River Hot Springs (not Choquette Hot Springs)" adopted 1 February 1988 on 104B/13, as recommended by Water Management Branch and endorsed by LRMP. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The park established at Stikine River Hot Spring is to be called "Choquette Hot Springs Park". (Order in Council 63, 15 January 2001) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Identified as a "boiling spring" on Joseph Hunter's June 1877 plan of Stickeen River [sic], reprinted in International Boundary Commission Report, p. 247. Identified as a "warm spring" on sketch of Lot 85, surveyed for D. McKinnon about 1900. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |