| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Keen Creek, W of Kaslo, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°55'10"N, 117°00'55"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82F/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Nashton Creek adopted 1 August 1957 on 82/SW, as recommended by BC; not "Cedar Creek" as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 1667, Slocan Mining Area, 1917, and on BC Mineral Reference Map 1, 1927, and on Geological Survey sheet 200A, Slocan, 1929, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer - too many duplicates of that name (file N.1.37). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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So-named in association with the Nashton Post Office once located less than 2 miles east of here, on Lot 436 at the mouth of Keen Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Had been labelled "Come Again Creek" on 1902 map of Mining Divisions of East & West Kootenay. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |