Blue Springs Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into Bessette Creek at Lumby, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°14'54"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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Bluespring Creek adopted 1 March 1956, as a well-established local name and as labelled on BC map 4J, 1921; form of name changed to Blue Springs Creek 7 June 1956 on 82L/SE. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Refers to a spring which has worn a small basin in the ground in which the water looks blue. "BlueSpring" is labelled on Geological Survey of Canada's 1898 map 669, Shuswap, as a hydrographic feature. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |