Ainsworth Hot Springs

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Ainsworth Hot Springs

Coordinates49.73°, -116.91°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Ainsworth Hot Springs, previously named Ainsworth, is a historic village and de facto ghost town on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada and has a population of 20. Founded on May 31, 1883, it is the oldest surviving community on Kootenay Lake. Ainsworth Hot Springs is located on Highway 31, 11 miles (18 km) north of Balfour and 12 miles (19 km) south of Kaslo, British Columbia. Today, Ainsworth Hot Springs and the Cody Caves are a popular destination for tourists and spelunkers.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Baba Brinkman

Canadian rapper and playwright

J

James Lewin McGregor

Canadian mathematician (1921–1988)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in British Columbia

• Kootenay Bay
  4.3 mi away
• Crawford Bay
  5.7 mi away
• Balfour
  7.9 mi away
• Procter
  8.5 mi away
• Gray Creek
  9.4 mi away
• Harrop
  10.9 mi away
• Granite
  26.5 mi away
• New Denver
  27.3 mi away
• Blewett
  27.4 mi away
• Lardeau
  28.4 mi away
• Appledale
  28.5 mi away
• Corra Linn
  31 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Ainsworth Hot Springs

Vanishing British Columbia

Michael Kluckner · 2005

High grade & hot springs

Edward Lloyd Affleck · 2001

Ghost towns of the Pacific Northwest

Philip Varney · 2005

Search results from Open Library.

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  Wildfires · 2026-08-01 · 139 mi
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Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).