| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows NW into Bessette Creek at Lumby, E of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°14'46"N, 118°57'21"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Creighton Creek adopted 11 January 1922 on Ottawa file OBF 0669, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915, and on BC map 4J, 1922. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Spelled "Crayton Creek" on BC Lands map 33, Yale & Adjacent Districts, 1912. "Creighton Creek (not Crayton 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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Named after John Creighton, first settler, 1884; a peppery Irishman; veteran of Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny; died 10 July 1890. (6th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society). Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |