Morkill River
| Feature Type: | River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW into Fraser River just above (NW) of Crescent Spur, NE of McBride, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°36'44"N, 120°42'16"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93H/10 |
| Related Maps: |
83E/12 93H/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 February 1925 on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 36 & 37, as identified in Boundary Report Part III, 1923, p.42. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Interprovincial boundary surveyors, after Dalby Brooks Morkill ( -1955), BCLS; his obituary or career biography is published in 1956 Annual Report of Land Surveyors of British Columbia. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |