| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW off Mount Edziza into Mess Creek, SE of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°44'37"N, 130°57'46"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Nigger Creek adopted 8 May 1954 on 104G, as labelled on plan 13T276 (title not cited) surveyed by John Davidson, BCLS, 1927, and as labelled on BC Lands' map 5C, Stikine River, 1929. Named changed to Crayke Creek 20 April 1967 on 104G, as submitted by Duff Wight, BC Geographic Division. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In his report to accompany plan 13T276 (Extracts from Reports of British Columbia Land Surveyors, Cassiar District, p.185), John Davidson refers to 14 Mile Creek and Nigger Creek as being alternate names for the same feature, but on his plan and on BC Lands' map 5C, the two names are applied to adjacent creeks. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Renamed after an old time family of Telegraph Creek; Mess Creek was the Crayke family trapline and son John still has a trapline there. (April 1967 letter, file T.2.54) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |