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Rimrock Lake, British Columbia

body of water

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ20712559 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rimrock Lake is a lake in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, about 25 miles (40 km) north of the city of Williams Lake. It lies at 880 metres (2,890 ft) elevation immediately adjacent to Cuisson Lake.

Rimrock Lake has a mean depth of 10.2 metres (33 ft), maximum depth of 24 metres (79 ft) and approximate surface area of 41.8 hectares (103 acres).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 65-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rimrock, Lake and British can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as body of water. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20712559. Authority coordinates are 52.483, -122.324. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rimrock Lake, British Columbia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.