| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW into Vernon Creek, SE of Wood Lake, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°00'51"N, 119°21'40"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Clark Creek adopted 7 February 1951 on 82L/SW as originally submitted by BC Geographic Division December 1921, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer; an established local name. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Spelled "Clarks Creek" on unidentified early map. Spelled "Clarke Creek" on McCaw's 1916 map Okanagan Lake Valley, sheet 9L. "Clark Creek (not Clarke nor Clark's)" 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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After early resident Jeremiah Clark, who pre-empted NW 1/4 Sec 7, Tp 21, Osoyoos Dist. (date not cited). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |