Elko
Elko is located at the junction of Highway 93 and the Crowsnest Highway, to the north of the Roosville Canada–United States border crossing. A small sawmill town, Elko is situated near the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Trench at the edge of a plateau at the base of the Canadian Rockies, in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 950 metres (3,120 feet)
- …is also known as “Elko, British Columbia”
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Category: human settlement
- Location
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Latitude
49.29994° or 49° 17′ 60″ north
Longitude
-115.11872° or 115° 7′ 7″ west
Open location code
85X67VXJ+XG
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Elko” goes by many names.
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