Cottonwood Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Head of Cottonwood Creek, just S of Nelson, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°25'42"N, 117°15'10"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 March 1948 on 82F/6, as labelled on Geological Survey's "West Kootenay Sheet", 1908, and on Geological Survey sheet 62A, Nelson & Vicinity, 1912, and on BC map 4B, 1912, 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 |