Kump Lake
| Language of origin | Salishan language family |
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW of Allison Lake, between Princeton and Merritt, Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°44'09"N, 120°38'12"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Kump Lake adopted 12 December 1939 on 92H, not "Lost Lake" as identified on McCaw's 1925 survey of the area (title not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Labelled "Kump (Lost) Lake" on BC map 4Q, Hope-Princeton, March 1939. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Salish word for "warm", "hot". Source: Tolmie, W.F. & Dawson, G.M; Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia; Geological & Natural History Survey of Canada, 1884 |