| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into West Arm Kootenay Lake at Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°29'26"N, 117°18'24"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 October 1947 on Columbia Basin manuscript 10, as labelled on topographic map West Kootenay District, 1896, and Geological Survey sheet 791, 1902, and on BC map 1EM, 1915, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Cottonwood or Smith Creek" on BC map 4B, 1912. "Cottonwood Creek (not Smith Creek)" identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Recalls "Cottonwood" Smith, who ran a trap line up Hall Creek in 1879 (as told by Bob Yuill, age 88, and appearing in the Nelson Daily News 5 May 1933) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |