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Needles

British Columbiahamlet

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Coordinates49.87°, -118.10°

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City facts

Overview

Needles is a hamlet located in British Columbia, Canada. Detailed population figures are not currently catalogued in the open data sources we track. Needles maps to 49.873°, -118.103° — squarely within the temperate belt. Climatically, locations at this latitude tend to experience four distinct seasons with warm summers and cold winters. Solar-resource estimates put the area at about 1,304 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year with sunshine for roughly 51% of daylight hours. Further detail — demographics, climate, nearby amenities and natural-hazard data — is compiled below from public open-data sources.

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History & geography

Geography

Latitude
49.8727
Longitude
-118.1034
Water area
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View on OpenStreetMap

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

Climate

Air quality

Walkability

Amenities nearby

Wildlife & biodiversity

Earthquake history

Photos

Sights & places nearby

Notable people from here

S
Sonia Lamontagne
Canadian poet

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

Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
3.57
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,304

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

Nearby airports

Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
79
Avg daily Wikipedia views
3
Attention level
Obscure

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Needles

Indigenous storywork
Jo-Ann Archibald · 2008
Learning from each other
Learning from each other
Canadian Harm Reduction Network · 2008
[Pamphlets
Franz Boas · 1885
Raise shit!
Raise shit!
Susan C. Boyd · 2009
Home Fires at the Foot of the Rockies
Home Fires at the Foot of the Rockies
Rachel Showalter · 1973
Frommer's Seattle 2006
Frommer's Seattle 2006
Karl Samson · 2006
Yank, the Army Weekly
Yank, the Army Weekly
United States. War Department. Special Services Division. · 1945
The Human Planet
The Human Planet
2009

Search results from Open Library.

Recent natural events nearby

Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).

Ground air-quality sensors

Recently spotted species

spotted knapweed
spotted knapweed
Centaurea stoebe
Seen 2026-09-05
Osprey
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Seen 2026-09-05
Ruffed Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Bonasa umbellus
Seen 2026-09-05
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin
Spinus pinus
Seen 2026-09-05
Brown-lipped Snail
Brown-lipped Snail
Cepaea nemoralis
Seen 2026-09-05
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica
Seen 2026-09-05
Canada Goose
Canada Goose
Branta canadensis
Seen 2026-09-05
American Red Squirrel
American Red Squirrel
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Seen 2026-09-05
Common Raven
Common Raven
Corvus corax
Seen 2026-09-05

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Events

Gallery

Sources

  • • Wikidata
  • • iNaturalist
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Open Library
  • • NASA EONET