Welcome to Chinook Cove ...

Although we found mention of Chinook Cove during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Chinook Cove had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..

We've added Chinook Cove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Chinook Cove - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Chinook Cove, please Contact Us.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Chinook Cove, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was on a map dated 1925.

A typical abbreviation for Chinook Cove: Chinook Cv.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Chinook Cove 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).

Area Codes for Chinook Cove: 250, 236, 672 & 778<2>

Adding Chinook Cove to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Chinook Cove was on a map titled Map of British Columbia (from Gulf Refining, 1925).

We also found Chinook Cove in the book titled SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Western Canada.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Chinook Cove.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/

Footnotes ...

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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 north past Chinook Cove and then turned east". While Chinook Cove could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Chinook Cove 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek 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 Chinook Cove 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.

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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 Chinook Cove area will be assigned with one of these codes: 250, 236, 672 or 778. As a result, placing a call in the Chinook Cove area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).