Lemon Creek Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia

Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. S of Slocan Lake, NW of Nelson, Kootenay Land District

Mapped Location

Lemon Creek: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

Information

General information on Lemon Creek

  • Feature Type: Place

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Lemon Creek

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
Lemon Creek Official

 

Origin Notes and History of Lemon Creek

References to Lemon Creek that document the origin of its place name

Lemon Creek (flag stop) identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer - located on CPR. Lemon Creek (station) adopted 7 July 1955 on Columbia River Basin manuscript 64, as labelled on BC Landds' map 4B, 1946. Form of name changed to Lemon Creek (community) 29 November 1984.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

Named in association with the nearby creek of the same name, in turn after Robert Lemon, prominent pre-WW I merchant of Nelson.

B.C. Geographical Names in Province of British Columbia
BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office  |  Province of British Columbia

 

Regional District of Central Kootenay

Political Boundaries

Last updated: 2023-09-27