Welcome to Box Lake ...
Although we found mention of Box Lake during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Box Lake was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
We've added Box Lake to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Box Lake, please Contact Us.
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A typical abbreviation for Box Lake: Box Lk.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Box Lake might be (or was) located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: PST- Heure Normale du Pacifique (HNP), PDT- Heure Avancée du Pacifique (HAP).
Note: If you travel east from Box Lake, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).
Area Codes for Box Lake: 250, 236, 672 & 778<2>
Communities Also Named Box Lake ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Box Lake - it's located in New Mexico.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Box Lake.
Communities near Box Lake ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Box Lake.
- Nakusp
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Glenbank
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenbank
- East Demars ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for East Demars. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Demars
- West Demars ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for West Demars. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Demars
- Fosthall
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fosthall
- Burton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burton
- Rosebery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebery
- New Denver
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Alamo ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alamo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
- Alamo has also been known as:
- Alamo Siding
- Three Forks ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Three Forks. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Box Lake ...
Looking for more information about Box Lake? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.
While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Box Lake, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Box Lake.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Box Lake and then turned east". While Box Lake could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Box Lake as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Box Lake could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 250 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 236, 672 or 778. New phone numbers in the Box Lake area will be assigned with one of these codes: 250, 236, 672 or 778. As a result, placing a call in the Box Lake area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |