Welcome to Steamboat ...

Although we found mention of Steamboat during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Steamboat 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 Steamboat to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Steamboat, please Contact Us.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Steamboat, 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.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Steamboat 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 Steamboat (for example, toward Fort Nelson), you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

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

Communities Also Named Steamboat ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Steamboat - they are located in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Steamboat.

Adding Steamboat to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Steamboat.

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 Steamboat and then turned east". While Steamboat could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Steamboat 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 Steamboat 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 Steamboat area will be assigned with one of these codes: 250, 236, 672 or 778. As a result, placing a call in the Steamboat area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).